Dr. David Mulder trauma specialist, honoured by MUHC

 

Montreal General Hospital names its trauma centre after surgeon who changed Quebec’s trauma-care system

Dr. David Mulder might be best known as the doctor who tends to concussions, bruises and sprains for the Montreal Canadiens — a path he embarked on by tending to injured McGill Redmen hockey players way back in 1963.
But that might change now that the Saskatchewan-born surgeon has a trauma centre named after him.

“I’m overwhelmed and humbled beyond belief. It’s an incredible day for me.” Dr. David Mulder

In the 1980s, he launched a campaign to establish a new approach to trauma care in Quebec after learning that half of all patients brought to Quebec hospitals after serious accidents did not survive.
After the reform, Quebec’s 50 per cent extreme-trauma mortality rate gradually dropped to 20 per cent, then 10 per cent. It now sits at five per cent, Mulder said.
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