UAB hires more surgeons to deal with growing number of gunshot wound and trauma victims

Dr. Jeffrey Kerby with UAB says the number of trauma patients has doubled over the last eight years.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A UAB doctor says the hospital has added more surgeons to their trauma team to handle the increase in gunshot wound victims in recent years.

He’s the director of division of trauma and acute care surgery.Dr. Kerby says they saw around 1,300 patients this year and just eight years ago, they saw half of that, around 600 patients. “A lot of times, our trauma surgeon will be tied up in the operating room and somebody else may come in who needs emergent operative intervention,” he added. “So we’ve had to now increase that number at night to two, and for half the month, we have actually three surgeons in the hospital at all times.”

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