Performing the trauma primary survey

Overview

Trauma case examples to provide the learner with experience in the performance of a structured trauma primary survey assessment. This can be done as a pause and discuss exercise, multidisciplinary scenarios or as didactic education depending on the facilitator and participant need.  

Description

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. 

Learning objectives

By the end of this session the participant will be able to: 

• Perform a structured clinical primary survey assessment 
• Identify important life-threatening injury 
• Rationalise need for immediate vs delayed intervention 

Downloads

Clinical assessment tools

Videos

Further reading