TEN-360: Major Trauma and Burn Injury

Immediate priorities in Assessment and Management

Introduction

The patient presenting following major trauma is one of the great challenges in emergency medicine. Instead of a single primary diagnosis (involving one organ system) as we are generally challenged with in managing acute medical presentations, in the patient presenting with major trauma there are often multiple diagnoses (significant injuries) that involve multiple regions or organs, many of which may be life threatening.

In the severely injured or patient it is critical to adopt a systematic approach that allows us to focus on immediate priorities and enable to identify immediate life threats and commence treatment (resuscitation). Continuing close observation and monitoring of the patient is essential as patients with major trauma may often suddenly deteriorate due to unrecognised bleeding, chest trauma or intracerebral injury.

In this prelearning we explore the immediate assessment and management of the patient presenting with major trauma and in the second module apply this systematic approach to explore the assessment and management of the patient presenting with major burn injury.  

Find out about the TEN-360 Program

This prelearning is part of the TEN-360 program. To find more about the TEN-360 take a look at the TEN-360 course page. 

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