Trauma Management

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This course is intended to present the student with a comprehensive insight into traumatic injury. Pathophysiology, assessment, and management of trauma to include blunt, penetrating, soft-tissue, burn, musculoskeletal, head, face, neck, spinal, thoracic, and abdominal trauma as well as hemorrhage and shock will be analyzed. Types and phases of shock will be explored to provide the student assessment knowledge for the treatment of various shock conditions. Epidemiology of trauma will be discussed as well as the Arkansas Trauma System. Lecture: 3 hours.