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JANA ESCHBACH/LAWNWOOD
When a trauma patient arrives at Lawnwood, a team of about 20 specialists assembles
at the first operating room awaiting their instructions from the chief surgeon.
JANA ESCHBACH/LAWNWOOD
High resolution images are essential for complex surgeries such
as repairing a shattered pelvis, as seen here.
come to a trauma center because of the specialists and
the equipment that are here,” Eschbach says.
The best and brightest want to work at the new
trauma center and many nurses from Palm Beach
County have offered applications. “The opportunity
to be on the ground floor with this program, to help
craft the program is why I came here, to help build
a trauma department in an area of which there is an
obvious need,” says Dr. Anjan Shah, an orthopedic
trauma surgeon, who came to Lawnwood from the
renowned trauma center at Tampa General Hospital.
“In the first 72 hours of my job here, I am seeing
some of the most complex injuries of my career,”
Shah says during a seven-hour operation to repair a
shattered pelvis.