Cleveland's MetroHealth to join Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium

Cleveland’s MetroHealth Medical Center is Ohio’s only hospital chosen to participate in the Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium, which will use a $38.6 million federal grant to help wounded soldiers and civilians recover from their injuries.

The grant is funded by the Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program of the U.S. Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program.

The consortium, which was launched in September 2009 to address immediate research needs of the military to manage severe limb injuries, will use this funding to conduct multi-center studies on the treatment and outcomes of major orthopedic injuries sustained on the battlefield.

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To date, nearly 1,600 servicemen and women from Ohio have been wounded in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. The research conducted by the consortium will help doctors better understand what works and what doesn’t in treating these injuries, and ensure that service members and civilians alike are provided with the best care possible.

As part of the network of core civilian trauma centers that will work with leading military medical centers, MetroHealth will help the consortium meet its goal to produce the evidence needed to establish treatment guidelines for the optimal care of the wounded soldier.

This will ultimately improve the clinical, functional and quality of life outcomes of both service members and civilians who sustain high energy trauma to the extremities.