At the end of this course, the participant will be able to:
- Identify the nature of a specific medical emergency and act accordingly
- Enact the various roles in a team work in trauma care
- Demonstrate the concepts and principles of the primary and secondary patient assessments
- Establish management priorities in trauma situations
- Initiate primary and secondary management necessary within the golden hour for the emergency management of acute life threatening conditions.
- Identify the appropriate therapy of five resuscitation scenarios based on the Advanced Trauma Care Nurse course by The Society of Trauma Nurses.
- Airway and ventilator management
- Hemorrhagic shock
- Head trauma
- Musculoskeletal and spinal trauma
- Pediatric trauma
- In a given simulated clinical skills practicum, demonstrate the following skills:
- Primary and secondary survey of the patient
- Establishment of patent airway and initiation of assisted ventilation
- Assist in intubation
- Pulse oximetery and carbon dioxide detection in the inhaled gases
- Recognition of life threatening hemorrhage
- Evaluation of a patient with brain injury, including use of the Glasgow Coma Score
- Assessment of head and facial trauma by physical examination
- Protection of the spinal cord and clinical evaluation of spine injuries
- Musculoskeletal trauma and management
- Recognition of the special problems of injuries in infants, the elderlies, and pregnant women.
- Understanding of the principles of disaster management.