Trauma (Emergency Medicine)

Learn the overall approach to the traumatically injured patient

Learn more about the management of trauma, and start with the primary survey, which is the standardized inital assessment of all trauma patients in order to identify life threats quickly and provide immediate stabilization by using ABCDE assessment.

After the introduction, you will get insights in thoracic and abdominal injuries that are common in the ER. In particular, you get to know needle decompressions to treat tension pnuemothorax. You will also learn everything you need to know about various emergency cases like abdominal, extremity, and head injuries.

More topics will be:

• Approach to multi trauma patients
• Epidural and subdural hematoma
• Traumatic subarachnoid and intraparenchymal hemorrhage
• Intracranial pressure (ICP) and blood pressure
• Cervical apine injury