In Fallon, Nevada, ATVs are a part of life. The rural desert community is proud of its hundreds of miles of dirt roads and trails for riding. On a warm spring day, 15-year-old Dakota Sullivan was on his ATV enjoying a ride when he hit a mile marker at high speed. The impact injured his neck and threatened his life. Against all odds, he is alive and well today to share his story.
Neurosurgery, trauma, and neurocritical care teams perform Christmas miracle by saving boy’s life after severe accident.
Experts say it’s important to engage in conversations about the violence your child has seen or heard and how it makes them feel.
As we have all heard this year, gun violence is the leading cause of death… Read more »
Parents across the country may be wondering how to have a conversation with their kids after news of multiple mass shootings. Mental health experts provide advice on how to help children process the tragedy.
When Elijah Olivas’s hand was severed in a car accident, dozens of experts from our pediatric trauma team coordinated to perform 20 hours of life- and limb-saving surgery.
The Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, July 6, 2013 will never be forgotten. The tragedy claimed three lives, injured 200, and left families with devastating memories that will last forever. Those memories will also stay with the Stanford Medicine care teams that responded so quickly.
Each year in the United States, more than 3,000 children under the age of 5 are injured in falls from windows. Rajashree Koppolu, CPNP, a nurse practitioner with the pediatric general surgery and trauma team at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, has treated many children who have fallen from windows.
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