22nd Annual Trauma Conference

Target Audience

This online interprofessional educational enduring material is designed for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, advanced practice providers, physical therapists, and health professional students who care for trauma patients. Its purpose is to communicate the fact that there is a need to address various scenarios the Trauma unit experiences, with content related to hazard vulnerability analysis; psychological responses to traumatic injury; trauma myths; mobilization in the ICU; trauma affecting the obstetric patient; psychological changes of the geriatric patient; antifibrinolytic drugs for acute traumatic injury;  hemostatic resuscitation; and hypotensive resuscitation.

Learning Objectives

Disaster Planning: Myth versus Reality

  • Develop a realistic hazard vulnerability analysis (HVA) statement
  • Identify an appropriate response plan to an HVA

Psychological Experience of the Injured Patient: Implications for Evaluation and Intervention in the Trauma Center

  • Describe common psychological responses to traumatic injury and identify symptoms that may indicate a need for further evaluation and intervention
  • Identify assessment tools to assess for early posttraumatic stress and other psychological conditions that can be used during inpatient hospitalization
  • Discuss strategies multidisciplinary team members can use when working with the injured patient in the trauma unit

Trauma Mythbusters: Down With Dogma!

  • Critically examine beliefs we take for granted in trauma
  • Review some specific trauma myths
  • Describe how to determine what is truth and what is dogma

Early Ambulation in the ICU

  • Describe the benefits to mobilization in the ICU
  • Discuss the detriment of over sedation and immobility in the ICU
  • Evaluate barriers to implementing mobilization in the ICU
  • Identify systems and processes that will assist with mobilization in the ICU

When Baby + Momma = Double Trouble Trauma: Obstetric Trauma

  • Discuss common trauma affecting the obstetric patient
  • Review normal physiologic changes in pregnancy related to trauma assessment and care
  • List trauma care strategies the team can use to optimize maternal and fetal outcomes

Management of the Geriatric Trauma Patient

  • Discuss the physiologic changes of the geriatric patient
  • Determine the appropriate evaluation of a geriatric trauma patient
  • Examine the appropriate management of common injuries in the geriatric trauma patient
  • Identify goals of care and end-of-life care of the geriatric trauma patient

You're Bleeding on My Shoes: Drugs with Unpronounceable Names for Acute Traumatic Injury

  • Increase awareness of antifibrinolytic drugs for acute traumatic injury
  • Review pharmokinetics of antifibrinolytic drugs
  • Describe the practical application for using antifibrinolytic drugs in acute traumatic injury
  • Discuss new drug developments for acute traumatic injury

Damage Control Resuscitation

  • Review hemostatic resuscitation
  • Discuss hypotensive resuscitation
  • Identify how Tranexamic Acid (TXA) interacts with coagulopathy of trauma
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit

    In support of improving patient care, Texas Health Resources is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

    The Texas Health Resources designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 6.25 Attendance
  • 6.25 Nursing Contact Hour(s)
    In support of improving patient care, Texas Health Resources is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Course opens: 
04/08/2021
Course expires: 
04/08/2022
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
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Available Credit

  • 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit

    In support of improving patient care, Texas Health Resources is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

    The Texas Health Resources designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 6.25 Attendance
  • 6.25 Nursing Contact Hour(s)
    In support of improving patient care, Texas Health Resources is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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