The Defense Department’s Orthopaedic Extremity Trauma Research Program will pay $18.4 million to the Extremity Trauma Clinical Research Consortium, representing the 12 centers, over the next five years.
Other centers are Boston University Medical Center, Florida Orthopedic Institute, Carolinas Medical Center, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, OrthoIndy and Indiana Orthopedic Hospital, Orthopedic Associates of Michigan, University of Maryland Medical Systems’ R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Mississippi Medical Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, University of Washington Harborview Medical Center and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The group’s coordinating center at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health reports that 82 percent of U.S. service members injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have sustained significant extremity trauma, and many have had injuries to multiple limbs, due to roadside bombs and similar explosive devices.
Read the Orthopaedic Trauma Institute’s release on the Orthopaedic Extremity Trauma Research Program.
