Approach to Trauma and Burns
Activity
Large Group Session
Large Group Session
Describe the roles of the trauma team members. Describe the ABCDE approach to the trauma patient. Know 5 diagnoses not to miss in the primary survey. Know the types of IV fluid to use in a trauma resuscitation. Describe the utility and limitations of investigations used in the primary survey. Use the “rule of 9’s” to calculate burn area percentage. Use the Parkland formula to estimate IV fluid requirements of a burn patient.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Minor trauma / MSK injuries (including fracture / dislocation/ sprain). Explain the ABCDE approach to major and minor trauma, identify resuscitative priorities and recognize injuries which require acute management.
- Demonstrate the ability to rapidly recognize and initiate basic management of acute life- or limb-threatening illness or injury
- Describe a basic differential diagnosis including the significant worst-case diagnosis for every patient assessed.
- Demonstrate a basic systematic, prioritized approach to resuscitation and stabilization of emergencies.
- Burns - minor / major
Tags
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Emergency Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Emergency Medicine
MCC Presentations
Burns
Trauma
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare
MeSH
Airway Management [E02.041]
Burns [C26.200]
Emergency Treatment [E02.365]
Fluid Therapy [E02.319.360]
Hemothorax [C23.550.414.904]
Intubation, Intratracheal [E05.497.578]
Resuscitation [E02.365.647]
Shock, Traumatic [C23.550.835.888]
Wounds and Injuries [C26]
