Therapeutic Modalities of Trauma Care

Catalog description

This course will enable students to integrate a comprehensive knowledge of causes and pathophysiology into the management of traumatic, cardiac arrest and peri-arrest states shock, and respiratory failure or arrest with an emphasis on early intervention to prevent arrest. This course will also include integrating assessment findings with principles of epidemiology and pathophysiology to formulate a field impression and implement comprehensive treatment and disposition plans for acutely injured patients. Students will complete a nationally recognized pre-hospital trauma course (i.e. PHTLS, ITLS, ATT, etc.). Topics include shock and trauma resuscitation; trauma overview; bleeding; chest trauma; abdominal and genitourinary trauma; orthopedic trauma; soft tissue trauma; head, facial, neck, and spine trauma; nervous system trauma; special considerations in trauma; environmental emergencies; multi-system trauma; and assessment of trauma emergencies.