Christiana Care Physician Receives Grant to Study Platelet Transfusions for Brain Hemorrhaging

Mark Cipolle, MD, Wilmington, Del.-based Christiana Care Health System’s medical director of trauma and neurocritical care, has received a $130,000 research grant from the National Trauma Institute to study platelet transfusion in patients with brain hemorrhage, according to a health system news release.

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Christiana Care provides around-the-clock trauma and emergency services to a large number of severely injured patients. Christiana Hospital is designated by the state of Delaware and verified by the American College of Surgeons as the state’s only Level I trauma center for adults and children. In 2010, Christiana Care treated more than 165,000 patients in its emergency departments and admitted 3,800 trauma patients, of which 715 had traumatic brain injuries.

The study begins this year with the possibility of preliminary results to be presented at the NTI’s Annual Trauma Symposium in 2012.

Read the health system news release about the platelet transfusion study at Christiana Care Health System.

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