Training Resource Kit

November 21, 2024

Preparing for retrieval

This resource kit provides clinicians with the knowledge and skills to prepare a patient for retrieval and transfer to another hospital.

November 21, 2024

Blunt cardiac injury

This resource kit provides case-based scenario to discuss the investigation and management options for a patient with possible blunt cardiac injury following trauma.  

October 16, 2024

Unstable trauma patient

This resource kit provides the learners the opportunity to consider multiple shock states in the trauma patient.

October 16, 2024

Trauma assessment in pregnant patient

This resource kit provides an opportunity to develop skills when caring for trauma patients
who are pregnant.

October 14, 2024

Trauma vascular access

This resource kit provides an opportunity for the learner to gain insight into escalation
procedures and options for the management of difficult vascular access for trauma patients.

October 10, 2024

Performing the trauma primary survey

This resource kit provides information to give the opportunity for the learner to explore and understand the priority assessment features during the trauma primary survey to identify serious injury. 

September 11, 2024

Trauma triage

This resource kit provides a training opportunity to discuss common trauma triage challenges.

September 11, 2024

Elderly patient

This resource kit provides a learning framework for the assessment and management of the elderly patient with traumatic brain injury.

September 10, 2024

Chest trauma management

This resource kit provides an opportunity to explore the assessment and management of patients who sustain chest trauma.

September 10, 2024

Blood administration in trauma

This resource kit provides an opportunity to discuss and practice the preparation for delivery of haemostatic resuscitation.

September 9, 2024

Invasive ventilation strategies

This resource kit provides the learner with the opportunity to explore ventilation strategies for
different trauma presentations.

July 8, 2024

Thoracic bracing

This resource kit provides the learner with knowledge for the choice and use of thoracic bracing with spinal column injury.

July 8, 2024

Changing a semi-rigid cervical collar

This resource kit provides clinicians with knowledge and skills for the care of a patient who requires a semi-rigid cervical collar for management.

July 8, 2024

Log roll with spinal precautions

This resource kit provides procedural skill experience for the performance of log rolling with spinal precautions in the ward care setting following trauma.

July 8, 2024

Deterioration in chest trauma

This resource kit provides participants with the knowledge and skill to manage a patient who has respiratory deterioration in the setting of chest trauma on the ward.

July 8, 2024

Clinical handover

This resource kit provides healthcare clinicians with the knowledge on how to effectively perform clinical handover in the setting of chest trauma.

July 8, 2024

Trauma team roles

This resource kit provides participants the opportunity to explore the trauma team roles and effective communication strategies for patient care.

July 8, 2024

Management of mild closed head injury

This resource is for facilitators to explore the discharge management of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) after initial assessment and treatment.

July 8, 2024

Assessment of closed head injury

This package is designed to highlight the challenges in traumatic brain injury assessment and familiarise the learner with indications and interpretation of advanced imaging.

July 8, 2024

Management of closed head injury

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the knowledge on how to effectively assess and manage a closed head injury following a traumatic incident.

July 8, 2024

Glasgow coma scale

This package is designed to highlight the importance of and how to perform a structured approach Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) in the assessment of a trauma scenario.

July 8, 2024

Closed head injury

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the knowledge and skills on how to assess and manage a closed head injury following traumatic incident.

July 8, 2024

Placental abruption

Provides participants with the basic knowledge and skills on how to assess and manage placental abruption following a traumatic incident.

July 8, 2024

Resuscitative hysterotomy

Overview Resuscitative hysterotomy (or perimortem caesarean section) as the name suggests, is a resuscitative procedure that is initiated following maternal traumatic cardiac arrest with the primary focus being maternal survival.  The aim of the procedure is to empty the uterus which ultimately alleviates both aortocaval and inferior vena cava compression, restoring blood volume and venous […]

July 4, 2024

Major pelvic trauma

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the knowledge of assessment and management of major pelvic injury in the geriatric population.

July 4, 2024

Traumatic brain injury

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the knowledge regarding the assessment and management of an elderly patient with a mild traumatic brain injury who is anticoagulated.

July 4, 2024

Minor pelvic trauma

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the knowledge to assess and manage a geriatric patient following low velocity pelvic trauma with multisystem injury found upon further imaging.

July 4, 2024

Chest trauma

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the knowledge to effectively assess and manage the elderly patient with blunt chest trauma.

July 4, 2024

Traumatic brain injury

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the knowledge and skills for the assessment and management of traumatic brain injury in the geriatric population.

July 4, 2024

Preparation and packaging

This resource kit provides background knowledge in the preparation for transfer by a retrieval team.

July 4, 2024

Multi-trauma

This resource kit provides pre-hospital clinicians with the skills to assess and manage a patient with blunt chest and extremity injury following trauma.

July 3, 2024

Assessment of pelvic injury

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with knowledge of the clinical assessment and specific investigations required to identify and manage a patient suffering suspected pelvic trauma.

July 3, 2024

Haemodynamic transient responder pelvic trauma

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the knowledge and skills to manage a patient with an open book pelvic injury who is a transient responder following a traumatic incident.

July 3, 2024

Haemodynamically unstable pelvic trauma

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the knowledge and skills to manage a patient with an open book pelvic injury who is haemodynamically unstable following a traumatic incident.

July 3, 2024

Cervical spine trauma

This resource kit provides the learner with knowledge and skills in the clinical assessment of a patient with a possible cervical spine injury following trauma.

July 3, 2024

Neck assessment

This skills session is to assess participants in assessment for neck injury following trauma utilising structured clinical format.

July 3, 2024

Cervical spine trauma

This resource kit provides the learner with the skills and knowledge to manage a patient with a suspected spinal cord injury.

July 3, 2024

Blunt abdominal trauma imaging

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with an understanding of the role of imaging and interventional techniques utilised in the management of blunt abdominal trauma.

July 3, 2024

Imaging in trauma

This resource kit provides an overview of chest trauma imaging interpretation including indications, complications of intervention and challenges in interpretation.

July 2, 2024

Delivery of massive transfusion

This resource kit provides the learner with the knowledge in the management of a patient who requires haemostatic resuscitation.

July 2, 2024

Use of viscoelastic haemostatic assays (VHAs)

This resource kit provides information for clinical teams caring for major trauma patients about the role, practical application, and interpretation of Viscoelastic Haemostatic Assays (VHAs).

July 2, 2024

VHA application in trauma care

This resource kit provides clinical staff the opportunity to practise the application and interpretation of a Viscoelastic haemostatic assay (VHA) trace (ROTEM) for the management of the bleeding trauma patient.

July 2, 2024

Femoral traction splint

This resource kit provides clinicians with the knowledge for use including indications and contraindications for traction splint application in femoral fractures following injury.

July 2, 2024

Ankle fracture

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the knowledge and skills to effectively interpret ankle x-rays for correct alignment following injury.

July 2, 2024

Fat emboli syndrome

This resource kit provides healthcare clinicians with the skills to assess and manage a patient with fat emboli following orthopaedic limb trauma.

July 1, 2024

Intercostal catheter insertion and removal

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the knowledge and skills to perform the insertion of an intercostal catheter (ICC) to manage a patient with blunt chest trauma, including the indications and considerations for ICC placement.

July 1, 2024

Intercostal catheter and chest drain management

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the knowledge and skills on how to optimise the management of a patient with an ICC and chest drainage systems following a traumatic chest injury.

July 1, 2024

Intercostal catheter insertion

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with knowledge of the technical skills required for the insertion of an intercostal catheter (ICC) for the management of haemothorax or pneumothorax following trauma.

July 1, 2024

Penetrating chest trauma

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the skills to assess and manage low velocity penetrating chest wall trauma. The scenario encompasses the decision making and procedural skill for insertion of an intercostal catheter to manage a traumatic haemo-pneumothorax.

July 1, 2024

Blunt chest trauma

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the skills and knowledge to effectively assess and manage a patient suffering blunt chest trauma injuries. The scenario encompasses the decision making and procedural skill for insertion of an intercostal catheter to manage a traumatic haemo-pneumothorax.

July 1, 2024

Delayed respiratory deterioration post blunt chest trauma

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with useful resources and key practice points to assist them to identify and manage respiratory complications in patients following blunt chest trauma injuries.

July 1, 2024

Thermal burns

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with knowledge on how to recognise and effectively manage a patient with thermal burns to special areas.

July 1, 2024

Escharotomy in severe burns

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the knowledge of indications for escharotomy in severe burns including the critical procedural steps.

July 1, 2024

Facial burns management

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with knowledge and skills to effectively manage a patient with thermal facial burns.

July 1, 2024

Blunt renal trauma assessment

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the knowledge of how to effectively perform an assessment on a patient with blunt renal trauma injury.

July 1, 2024

Blunt hepatic trauma

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with an understanding of the diagnostic and therapeutic methods utilised for the optimal management of blunt hepatic trauma.

July 1, 2024

Management of blunt abdominal trauma – splenic injury

This resource kit provides healthcare workers with the knowledge and skills to assess and manage a patient with blunt abdominal trauma.

June 27, 2024

Blunt abdominal and orthopaedic trauma

This resource kit provides a framework for the assessment and management of a patient with blunt abdominal and orthopaedic trauma.