 
Class of 2017
 Go Back | | Session Title: | | Approach to Trauma | | | Teaching Hours: | | Teaching and Learning Methods | Total Scheduled Hours = 1
Lecture = 1 | | Description: | | | Approach to Trauma | Keywords: |
| Blueprint ID | Learning Objectives | | 8461 | Describe the priorities and sequence of a trauma patient evaluation (ABC’s). | | 8462 | Identify the four classes of hemorrhagic shock and how to recognize them. | | 8463 | Describe the appropriate fluid resuscitation of a trauma victim. | | 8464 | Discuss the types, etiology and prevention of coagulopathies typically found in patients with massive hemorrhage. | | 8465 | Describe the appropriate triage of a patient in a trauma system. | | 8466 | Discuss the importance of mechanism of injury on management and triage decision-making. | | 8467 | Describe the diagnostic evaluation, differences between blunt and penetrating mechanisms of injury, and the initial management of the following: (A) thoracic injury (consider hemo/pneumothorax, tension pneumothorax, tamponade, pulmonary contusion, massive air leak, widened mediastinum, flail chest); (B) abdominal injury (consider role of physical exam, ultrasound, CT, peritoneal lavage, operative vs. non- operative management of liver and spleen injury, patients needing urgent laparotomy, management of hematomas); (C) urinary injury (consider operative vs. non-operative renal injury, ureteral injury, testicular trauma, intraperitoneal and extraperitoneal bladder injury, urethral trauma, when not to place a Foley catheter, candidates for cystogram, relationship to pelvic fracture)
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| Blueprint ID | Course Goals | | 7417 | Identify health care resources available for the investigation, treatment and management of the patient
Linked Program Competencies
To This Course Goal: me-3 me-4 me-5 me-6 cm-2 | | me-3 | Medical Expert
Formulate an initial plan of appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic procedures relevant to the patient’s presentation. | | me-4 | Medical Expert
Develop a differential diagnosis and key clinical problem list following assessment of a patient. | | me-5 | Medical Expert
Develop a management plan for key clinical problems following assessment of a patient. | | me-6 | Medical Expert
Apply knowledge of the clinical, socio-behavioural, and fundamental biomedical sciences relevant to a clinical problem. | | cm-2 | Communicator
Collect and synthesize accurate and relevant information, incorporating perspectives from patients and their families, colleagues and other health care professionals. |
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