Duration
45-60 minutes
Group size
Suited to small group participation
Target audience
Pre-hospital / Retrieval / Rural and Remote clinicians
Description
This resource kit provides pre-hospital clinicians with the skills to assess and manage a patient with blunt chest and extremity injury following trauma.
Learning objectives
- understand the importance of pre-hospital limb reduction and splinting
- demonstrate understanding of the priorities in managing blunt chest trauma in the awake patient
- consider the impact of flight physiology on the trauma patient
