Trauma Surgery Clerkship

¿Part I. Introduction to Trauma Care.- Epidemiology of trauma.- Injury prevention.- Trauma systems.- Trauma team activation and response.- Disasters and mass casualty incidents.- Part II. Trauma Physiology.- Physiologic response to injury and shock.- Initial resuscitation of the trauma patient.- Blood and transfusion.- Part III. Initial Approaches to the management of the trauma patient.- The Primary Survey.- Secondary and Tertiary Surveys.- Initial imaging of the trauma patient.- Post trauma bay considerations: OR, CT, IR?- Part IV. Procedures in the emergency department.- Cricothyroidotomy.- Chest Tubes.- ED Thoracotomy.- E-FAST.- REBOA.- Part V. Post Trauma Bay Imaging.- Imaging choices, findings and considerations.- Part VI. Interventional Radiology.- Interventions and limitations.- Part VII. Operating Room.- Operating room practices.- Operative approaches neck.- Operative approaches chest.- Operative approaches abdomen.- Operative approaches extremity/other.- Damage control surgery.- Part VIII. Post Admission Considerations.- Nutrition.- Wound management, dressings and vacuum devices.- Tubes, lines, and drains.- Venous thromboembolism and DVT prophylaxis in trauma patients.- Principles of pain management in trauma patients.- Part IX. Specific Injuries.- Traumatic brain injury.- Ophthalmic injury.- Spinal cord and spine injury.- Maxillofacial injury.- Cardiac and major vascular injury of the chest.- Lung and non-cardiac thoracic injury.- Diaphragm injury.- Liver and biliary tract injury.- Spleen injury.- Stomach and small bowel injury.- Duodenum and pancreas injury.- Colon injury.- Abdominal vascular injury.- Renal injury.- Ureteral and bladder injury.- Rectum injury.- Peripheral vascular injury.- Orthopedic Trauma, Fractures, and Dislocations.- Burns and Inhalation Injury.- Part X. Special populations.- Care of the pregnant trauma patient.- Trauma in children.- Trauma in the geriatric population.- Rehabilitation concerns in the trauma setting.- Palliative care.