Trauma Team Decision-Making

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Fig. 16.1 First principles: Trauma care can be thought of as a coordinated effort to minimize the duration of impaired oxygen delivery and its far-reaching consequences. The major options for…

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Trauma in the Pediatric Patient

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Age (year) HR/min RR/min Newborn 100–180 30–60 0.5 80–160 25–40 1–5 80–130 20–30 6 75–115 18–25 8 70–110 18–25 10 70–110 15–20 12 F 70–110, M 65–105 12–20 14 F…

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Imaging in the Stable Trauma Patient

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Fig. 24.1 Canadian C-spine rule. Abbreviations: Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), Motor Vehicle Collision (MVC), Emergency Department (ED). (Adapted from Vaillancourt et al. Evaluation of the safety of c-spine clearance by…

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Basic Trauma Ultrasound

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Fig. 21.1 Pericardial view of the FAST examination. Normal examination (a) contrasted with a positive study (b) with anechoic fluid visible within the pericardial space (arrow) When the sonographer cannot…

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Designing Multidisciplinary Simulations

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Optimal simulation requires realistic settings (the area used to represent the clinical environment), able facilitators (those involved in the design and administration of the simulation), and skilled debriefers (experts in…

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Teaching Technical and Procedural Skills

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Fig. 38.1 Taxonomy of the cognitive domain. Bloom’s original Taxonomy (left) with one of many modifications showing the higher levels in parallel as opposed to a stepwise hierarchy [18] The…

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Trauma in Pregnancy

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Parameter Change in pregnancy Heart rate Baseline rate increased by 15 bpm Blood pressure (systolic and diastolic) Nadir of 15 mmHg below baseline by the end of the second trimester…

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