Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery

Dr. Banton Featured on KARE-11

Doctors seeing spike in winter injuries - Kare11

Doctors at the University of Minnesota's new Concussion Clinic have been seeing more and more patients with similar stories in recent weeks. "This is prime season, everybody is slipping and falling and the first thing you're going to hit is your head," said Dr. Kaysie Banton, medical director at the clinic.

If you experienced prolonged headaches, dizziness or light sensitivity for 3­5 days, Banton says you should seek treatment. "If you don't rehabilitate those symptoms and you don't kind of recover from that, some of those deficits can be life long," she said.

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Dr. Beilman Featured in KSTP

"We like to talk in trauma care about the 'golden hour' so typically if you've survived your injury you have about an hour to get to a hospital," Dr. Beilman said.  It turns out the U's very own mascot helped play a role in this research.

Yes, the 13-lined ground squirrel, better known around Minnesota as Goldie Gopher.  "The medication is basically two components that go way up in ground squirrels during hibernation," Dr. Beilman said. Dating back to testing these animals as far back as 2005, researchers found after severe blood loss, these squirrels injected with BHB and Melatonin were four times more likely to survive.  "What this potentially will allow us to do is extend that 'golden hour' to an hour and a half to two hours," Dr. Beilman said.

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