May is trauma awareness month. But what can you do to prevent trauma?

The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center is world-renowned as the birthplace of modern trauma medicine. Shock Trauma now treats more than 8,000 people every year, more than double the number of patients its original building was designed to treat. Construction is now underway for a new Shock Trauma building, so how will it benefit Marylanders and what does it mean for the trauma system?