Trauma in Pregnancy
Parameter Change in pregnancy Heart rate Baseline rate increased by 15 bpm Blood pressure (systolic and diastolic) Nadir of 15 mmHg below baseline by the end of the second trimester…
CRITICAL CARE
Terrorism and Urban Trauma
Fig. 28.1 Trauma/terror cycle Injuries and Injury Patterns While urban trauma is commonly typified by penetrating interpersonal trauma that includes gunshots and stabbings, blunt interpersonal violence follows closely behind in…
Multiple-Choice Review Questions
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Lawrence M. Gillman, Sandy Widder, Michael Blaivas MD and Dimitrios Karakitsos (eds.)Trauma Team Dynamics10.1007/978-3-319-16586-8_39 39. Multiple-Choice Review Questions Sandy Widder1 and Lawrence M. Gillman2 (1) Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, 2D Walter Mackenzie Centre,…
Program Evaluation and Assessment of Learning
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Lawrence M. Gillman, Sandy Widder, Michael Blaivas MD and Dimitrios Karakitsos (eds.)Trauma Team Dynamics10.1007/978-3-319-16586-8_37 37. Program Evaluation and Assessment of Learning Vicki R. LeBlanc1, 2 and Walter Tavares3, 4, 5 (1) University of Ottawa Skills…
Constructive Debriefing for Trauma Team Education
Phase Description Reaction • Identify initial thoughts and feelings of participants • Define learning objectives that are important to participants • Emotional washout, unwrap mental mindset of participants • Facilitators…
Designing a Simulation Curriculum
Fig. 34.1 Systematic educational design. Source: Sherbino J, Frank JR. Educational design: a CanMEDS guide for the health professions. Ottawa: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; 2011 [3]….
Nuclear Injuries
Fig. 32.1 Particle penetration. Alpha radiation—readily stopped by a sheet of paper. Beta radiation—stopped by an aluminum plate. Gamma radiation is eventually absorbed as it penetrates a dense material. Lead…
Trauma in Austere Environments: Cold Injuries and Hypothermia
Fig. 30.1 Osborne J wave. Illustration courtesy of Jason E. Roediger, CCT, CRAT. Used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published…
War Zones and Biological Warfare
Level I (i.e., point of injury) Combat medic General physician Physician assistant Level II (i.e., forward surgical team) Combat medic Nurse Surgeon Anesthesiology provider Level III (i.e., combat support hospital)…
Damage Control: From Principles to Practice
Fig. 15.1 Damage control sequence. Part 2 occurs in the ICU. Parts 1 and 2 may be repeated multiple times over several days to a week prior to Part 3…
