Head Injury and Polytrauma Initial Assesment and Stabilisation

Head Injury

1. Trauma - Head Injury

2. Head Injury: Objectives Definition of Head Injury, Differentiate between Primary and Secondary Brain Injury Initial assessment of a patient arriving in ED with polytrauma- Primary Survey, Initial Stabilisation - ABCDE management, video clips Secondary Survey- Management of Raised ICP Run scenario for primary and secondary survey

3. Head Injury: Intro Classify head injury- Show pictures of different types with names Time- 5 mins

4. Primary vs Secondary Brain Injury Define Primary and secondary brain injury Importance of preventing secondary brain injury Show visual aids- Pictures - Time: 10 mins

5. Initial Assessment : Primary Survey Talk about of ABCDE Brain Trauma Foundation guidelines and chnages Time : 20 minutes

6. Secondary Survey: CT ATLS protocol Time: 20 minutes

7. Scenarios: Connect monitoring Doing primary survey Time: 60 minutes