Chest Trauma

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.

Duration: 45-60 minutes

Target Audience: Ward-based nursing and physiotherapy clinicians.

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.

Duration: 45-60 minutes

Target Audience: Emergency department medical and nursing clinicians.

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.

Duration: 45-60 minutes

Target Audience: Emergency department medical and nursing clinicians.

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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.

Duration: 30 minutes.

Target Audience: Medical clinicians.

Invasive ventilation strategies

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

Duration: 30 minutes.

Target Audience: Medical and nursing clinicians.

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.

Duration: 30 minutes.

Target Audience: Medical, nursing, and allied health clinicians.

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.

Duration: 30 minutes.

Target Audience: Emergency department medical, nursing and allied health clinicians.

Chest trauma management

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

Duration: 20 minutes.

Target Audience: Emergency department nursing clinicians.

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. 

Duration: 30 minutes.

Target Audience: Emergency department medical and nursing clinicians.