Trauma Intensive Care

Penetrating neck trauma

Hyperthermia

Traumatic liver injury

Assessment and management of burns

You are working as a Locum Intensive Care Specialist in a regional hospital with no tertiary paediatric service. You are called as part of the trauma team to the Emergency Department to assist with the management of an 8 year old child with burns.

Emergency management of severe burns; also, carbon monoxide and cyanide toxicity

A 50-year-old male patient returns to ICU following a laparotomy, splenectomy and partial hepatectomy for intra-abdominal bleeding following a high speed motor vehicle accident with isolated abdominal trauma. He has had a massive transfusion in theatre.

The morbidly obese trauma patient... who also turns out to be pregnant

A 23 year old woman is the driver of a car involved in a high-speed motor vehicle crash and is brought to your hospital.

An 18-year-old male has been involved in a high-speed motor vehicle accident. His initial GCS at the scene was 5 (E2,V2,M1) and he was intubated without any drugs. He has been a primary retrieval from the crash scene to your hospital.

A 25 year old cyclist fell of his cycle at high speed and was found unconscious. In the Emergency Department initial observations are pulse 108/minute, blood pressure 100/60 mm Hg, saturation 89% on 15 litres/min oxygen via face mask.

You  are asked  to  review  a  64  year  old  man  who  has  been  brought  to  the  emergency department having  been rescued  from a house fire.   There is no coherent his

A 45 year old man is brought to the Emergency Department following a motor vehicle accident. He was the driver in a frontal collision. The other occupant of the car is dead.

Management of a multi-trauma patient

Trauma 
Scenario: 
“A 27 year old man is admitted to hospital following a multiple vehicle crash on the freeway. He is

Clinical case 2.

Clinical Case 2.

Case presented required interpretation of investigations and management of a patient with multiple injuries (including ruptured spleen, tension pneumothorax, meningitis and hypernatraemia).

Clinical Case 1.

Case presented regarding investigation and management of a patient with multiple trauma
(including a pelvic fracture).  Introductory material and initial question was:

Trauma

Clinical  case .Material presented regarding post-operative management of a patient with multiple injuries included management of coagulopathy and lung injury , CXR and CT chest with  chest  trauma,  complications of  disease  and  m

Procedure station. Candidates were expected to provide a systematic approach to a patient with a tension pneumothorax. The scenario provided was as follows:

Musculo-skeletal

Management of hypotension 10 days after severe burns. Fourteen out of fifteen candidates passed this section.

Initial and ongoing management of injuries due to major trauma

Resuscitation of a young fit male with multiple injuries following a motor vehicle crash. A closed head injury, pulmonary contusion and pelvic fractures necessitated specific management.

Management of shock after major trauma.

Burns with smoke inhalation and airway burn