Minor Pelvic Trauma

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.

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