Trauma Assessment and Management

Trauma definition

Energy exists in 5 physical forms

Mechanism of injury

Mechanical injury:
damage dependent on:

Force

Energy transfer

Injury Identification

Assessment and management

Prehospital assessment

Priorities

Response to intervention

predicting severe injury

Patterns of injury
determined by folowing

Types of impact on motor vehicle accidents

Blast/explosion

Blast injury phases

Penetration injuries assessment and management

Primary survey

Secondary
- FGHIJ

Phases of trauma management

Trimodal death in trauma

Phase 2 - hospital resus and operative phase

End points of resus for poly trauma

Phase 3 - crit care