Duration

30 minutes.

Group size

4-6 participants per group.

Target audience

Medical and nursing clinicians.

Description

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

Learning objectives

  • Recognise the high incidence of low velocity trauma in elderly.
  • Consider multi-factorial aetiology of presentations.
  • Recognise elderly presentations may differ to younger population.
  • Understand the injury pattern can be significant despite simple mechanism.
  • Identify the challenges associated with clinical assessment in elderly trauma.

Downloads

Facilitator resource kit – PDF

7.89 MB

Participant resource kit – PDF

1.65 MB


Last updated: July 4, 2024