Winter 2018 Edition

A recent study led by McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and funded by the NIH showed that cardiac arrest patients resuscitated by paramedics using laryngeal tube insertion versus endotracheal intubation were more likely to survive. Results were published in the August 28, 2018, issue of JAMA, in an NIH press release and in a McGovern Medical School article.

Memorial Hermann Life Flight can now conduct flights under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR). IFR flights are flown by reference to aircraft flight instruments and advanced navigation systems and don’t require visual cues. This capability allows Life Flight crews to fly when weather conditions might restrict flight under Visual Flight Rules, or VFR, enabling them to respond to more requests and with fewer weather aborts than in the past.

On September 24, 2018, Memorial Hermann celebrated the topping out of its new 17-story Susan and Fayez Sarofim Pavilion, under construction at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. Construction of the tower is expected to be complete in 2020. Topping out is a historical tradition in building construction, celebrating when the structure of a building has reached a significant milestone of completion. In the case of its new tower, Memorial Hermann celebrated completion of steel framing on the main Sarofim Pavilion structure.

Heatstroke is serious business. When the body reaches temperatures above 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius), the risk of permanent organ damage and even death rises with each degree. So, when rescuers brought a patient to Red Duke Trauma Institute at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center with a body temperature of 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42.2 Celsius), there was no time to waste.