
NIH awards emergency medicine physicians two grants
"(SACRAMENTO) UC Davis Health’s Department of Emergency Medicine has been awarded two National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants totaling over $5 million to improve emergency patient care.
The first grant will support a study on the use of ultrasound in the evaluation of pediatric trauma patients. The second grant will establish a new 'hub' site within the SIREN (Strategies to Innovate EmeRgENcy Care Clinical Trials) network. The goal is to identify effective treatments given in the earliest stages of emergency care."