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Demetriades Says Greece Needs Trauma Center

Demetrios Demetriades, a noted researcher in the field of wounds at the University of Southern California, is to be given an Honorary Doctorate  Of Medicine from the Medical School of  The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on Nov. 28.

In an interview with the news agency AMPE, he stressed the fact that there are no trauma centers in Greece while past efforts to create one were ignored.

According to the results of a recent study carried out by the team of Demetriades, a Cypriot Professor of Surgery and Director of the Division of Trauma & Surgical Intensive Care Unit of the Keck School of Medicine at USC, the use of a hormone called erythropoietin, which is secreted by the kidneys, regulates red blood cell production speed and can significantly reduce, clinically as well as statistically, mortality in cases of severe traumatic brain injury.

Demetriades runs the largest wound program in the U.S. and has significantly contributed in the field of trauma and surgical intensive care with the introduction of new methods and concepts concerning the treatment of severe trauma.

He has led a research project playing  a major role in trauma education. For the last 15 years he has been sponsoring annual conferences in Cyprus and Greece regarding trauma treatment. He is currently co-operating with Cyprus  Government and the Ministry of Health so as to establish a modern trauma response system in Cyprus.

 

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