FOundations of rural trauma care
Facilitator - Steph
0830-0930 Interesting cases, great saves, and what we have learned last week.
Case/ECG/Image/VBG of the week
0930- 1000 Doing the basics well (Steph)
Rural Major Trauma Care… in Albany
1000-1015 COFFEE
1015- 1045 If air goes in & out, blood keeps going round and round…usually (VOLUNTEER PLEASE)
>>> The Airway in Trauma
When & why to take it?
Who to take it?
How to take it?
Challenges?
Optimisation?
Cases
1045-1115 I feel the need for speed… (VOLUNTEER PLEASE)
>>> Chest Trauma-Pearls & Pitfalls
B- assessment
B- killers
B- management
Speed holes & tubes.
Myth busting
1115- 1145 All bleeding stops…. eventually (VOLUNTEER PLEASE)
>>> Massive Haemorrhage & Shock in trauma
1145- 1215 LUNCH
1215 Celebration of Knowledge aka Simulation
--Steph
Pre-reading/ Pre-watching/ Pre-Listening
https://trauma.reach.vic.gov.au/podcasts
Airway- oldies but goodies
Preoxygenation and Prevention of Desaturation During Emergency Airway Management
Weingart SD, Levitan RM
https://www.annemergmed.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0196-0644%2811%2901667-2
The importance of first pass success when performing orotracheal intubation in the ED
Sakles et al.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4530518/pdf/nihms705574.pdf
Airway Management after major trauma, Canshaw J. et al. https://academic.oup.com/bjaed/article/6/3/124/375420
Breathing- old and new(er)
Pleural Decompression- Fitzgerald et al.
https://emcrit.org/emcrit/needle-finger-thoracostomy/
https://trauma.reach.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/Thoracic%20Trauma_Ver%201.0_30102017.pdf
Circulation
https://emcrit.org/wp-content/uploads/resus-of-crit-ill-trauma-patients.pdf
A review of transfusion- and trauma-induced hypocalcemia: Is it time to change the lethal triad to the lethal diamond? Siegler J. et al
For auditing purposes - 15% paediatrics