Blunt Chest Trauma

Duration

45-60 minutes

Group size

Suited to small group participation

Target audience

Pre-hospital / Retrieval / Rural and Remote clinicians

Description

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

Learning objectives

• understand the importance of pre-hospital limb reduction and splinting
• demonstrate understanding of the priorities in managing blunt chest trauma in the awake patient
• consider the impact of flight physiology on the trauma patient

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