Overview

This topic covers basic trauma management in the prehospital setting. Concepts of the patterns and mechanisms of injury are introduced. Specific types of injuries and how they are managed are explored in detail.

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Aims

The care of victims of acute traumatic injury forms a significant part of paramedic practice. In many cases the traumatic experience may appear to be an innocuous event with the patients' signs and symptoms not reflecting the possible severe life threatening injuries that could have been inflicted by certain types of mechanisms of injury. Paramedic practice demands the student to develop their understanding of these mechanisms of injury, the particular anatomy and physiological injuries associated with such mechanisms, and the assessment and treatment strategies to optimise patient care. Specific types of traumatic injuries will be examined with appropriate methods of management with special attention to spinal precautions. Students will understand the implications of Mass Casualty Incidents and Disaster management. Students will also develop their understanding of trauma and its implications on special populations such as paediatrics, obstetrics, elderly and bariatric patients.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Recognise the signs and symptoms and analyse patterns of injury in paramedicine
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Apply the principles of the quality use of medications in contemporary paramedicine, to a patient suffering a traumatic injury, at a foundational paramedic level
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Demonstrate safe and effective dynamic patient assessments, formulate an appropriate differential diagnosis and apply evidence-based management to a patient suffering a traumatic injury, at foundational paramedic level
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Develop reflective practice skills to deliver culturally and clinically safe patient care to a patient suffering a traumatic injury, across the lifespan, including adult and paediatric patients, at a foundational paramedic level
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Work as a team to safely and effectively deliver comprehensive care to the patient suffering a traumatic injury at foundational paramedic level

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Assumed knowledge

Resuscitation at Basic Life support level.