Mayo Clinic encourages safety and prevention during National Trauma Awareness Month
May is trauma awareness month. More people age 45 and younger die from injury or violence than any other cause of death.
Posted: May 3, 2021 5:11 PM
Posted By: Annalise Johnson
ROCHESTER, Minn. - May is trauma awareness month. More people age 45 and younger die from injury or violence than any other cause of death.
Dr. Katie McKenzie, an Olmsted Medical Center primary care physician, and Dr. Kyle McKenzie of Mayo Clinic s Department of Community Internal Medicine, never expected one of their children to be on the receiving end of care for a serious injury. Dr. Katie McKenzie and their then 3-year-old daughter Evelyn were in a crash in 2019 when another car failed to yield at an intersection. The vehicle struck the rear passenger side, where Evelyn was sitting in her car seat. She wasn t conscious or breathing.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. (WKBT) – Trauma impacts people of all ages. Mayo Clinic doctors are educating people on ways to reduce the likelihood of trauma.
Drs. Kyle and Katie McKenzie’s 3-year-old daughter, Evelyn, was severely injured in a car crash, even while safely buckled into her car seat. She spent the next 46 days re-learning how to roll over, sit up, eat, crawl, walk and talk again, but the car seat saved her life.
“She didn’t have any broken bones. I don’t think she had a cut or a bruise on her,” said Katie McKenzie, who is also a primary care physician at Olmsted Medical Center in Rochester. “I mean that car seat kept her very protected and she is now making a remarkable recovery.”
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(ABC 6 News) - They say safety is a choice. But prevention is key.
On Monday, in honor of Trauma Awareness month, experts from Mayo Clinic shared details on how trauma impacts people of all ages and identify ways to reduce the likelihood of trauma..
Trauma is the leading cause of death for individuals from infant to the age of 45 years across the United States.
Two doctors shared details about their personal experience of how trauma impacts people of all ages.
Sharing what it was like when their 3-year-old daughter was injured in a car crash.
Evelyn was severely injured in a car crash, even while securely restrained in her child passenger safety seat.
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ROCHESTER, Minnesota Evelyn McKenzie was three years old when a driver failed to yield and hit the side of the family s car where Evelyn was sitting in her car seat.
The accident in November 2019 happened as Evelyn and her mom were just moments away from turning into their driveway. When I got to her door, I saw right away that something was terribly wrong, recalled Katie McKenzie, a primary care physician with Olmsted Medical Center.
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