As Sallie Wickens boarded the LifeFlight helicopter in Climax Springs, Missouri, in June 2012, she had no idea it would be the last leg of a journey that started when she was 5 years old.
FOX4's Meryl Lin McKean reports on how a program designed in Kansas City to help heal young children who have experienced trauma is earning national recognition.
Keely Bechtel hoped history would repeat itself. She had her first baby at Saint Luke’s South Hospital and planned to do the same with her second. But her obstetrician moved to another area hospital.
Researchers at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute asked the question whether prospectively determining and informing physicians of an individual patient’s bleeding risk would increase the proper application of bleeding avoidance strategies and result in reduced odds of bleeding.
