This session addresses potentially life-threatening resuscitation challenges encountered by nurses after admission of the polytrauma patient to adult Critical Care, with an emphasis on hemorrhagic shock in trauma, coagulopathy, damage-control surgery, and end-points of trauma resuscitation. [75 minutes]
Key Content
- Physiology of Trauma
- The ABCDE’s of Trauma Resuscitation
- Priorities on Admission to Critical Care: Is My Patient Bleeding? - Shock in trauma, Acute Traumatic Coagulopathy (ATC), Massive Hemorrhage Protocol, Thromboelastography
- Damage-Control Surgery and Resuscitation
- Case Studies: Resuscitation and Management Challenges Studies - Focus: Neurological Injury; Gunshot and Stab Wounds; Abdominal Compartment Syndrome; Cardiac Arrest
- End points of Trauma Resuscitation and Future Research