By Itls
Descripción: Trauma, the medical term for injury, has become the most expensive health problem in the United States and most other countries. In the United States, trauma is the fourthleading
cause of death for all ages and the leading cause of death for children and adults under the age of 45 years. Trauma causes 73% of all deaths in the 15- to 24-year-old age group. For every fatality, there are 10 more patients admitted to hospitals and hundreds more treated in emergency departments. The price of trauma, in both physical and fiscal resources, mandates that all emergency medical services (EMS) personnel learn more about this disease to
treat its effects and decrease its incidence. Because the survival of trauma patients is often determined by how quickly they get definitive care in the operating room, it is crucial that you know how to assess and manage the critical trauma patient in the most efficient way. The purpose of the ITLS course is to teach you the most rapid and practical method to assess and manage critical trauma patients. The course is a combination of written chapters to give you the “why” and the “how” and practical exercises to practice your knowledge and skills on simulated patients so that at the end of the course you feel confident in your ability to provide rapid life-saving trauma care.
Contenido: Chapter 1 Scene Size-up
Chapter 2 Trauma Assessment and Management
Chapter 3 Assessment Skills
Chapter 4 Airway Management
Chapter 5 Airway Skills
Chapter 6 Thoracic Trauma
Chapter 7 Thoracic Trauma Skills
Chapter 8 Shock
Chapter 9 Vascular Access Skills
Chapter 10 Head Trauma and Traumatic Brain Injury
Chapter 11 Spinal Trauma and Patient-Centered Spinal Motion Restriction
Chapter 12 Spine Management Skills
Chapter 13 Abdominal Trauma
Chapter 14 Extremity Trauma
Chapter 15 Extremity Trauma Skills
Chapter 16 Burns
Chapter 17 Pediatric Trauma
Chapter 18 Geriatric Trauma
Chapter 19 Trauma in Pregnancy
Chapter 20 The Impaired Patient
Chapter 21 Trauma Arrest
Chapter 22 Standard Precautions and
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