SLO 4: Injury assessment and care
The outcome
Assess and treat injured patients, from isolated injuries to major trauma, while anticipating complications and further care.
What this means in practice
Work through an injury case and explain your immediate priorities and next steps.
The selection combines injury scenarios with examination practice. Choose an activity suited to the injury and the group’s experience.
Start here
Choose a starting point to suit what you need to work on.
Chapter 8: Resuscitation
Choose a trauma scenario and rehearse priorities, team communication and reassessment.
Head injury: imaging, deterioration and concussion
Compare a deteriorating head injury with a concussion consultation.
Chapter 7: Musculoskeletal
Choose the relevant joint examination and practise it safely with a partner.
More learning for this SLO
Teaching programmes
Early-career Emergency Medicine
1 relevant session in this programme.
Apply it in practice
Choose one thing to try on your next suitable shift, within your role and level of supervision. Discuss what happened and what you would change.
More mapped resources
Browse 81 more mapped St Emlyn’s resources
81 tagged resources
JC: Early plasma use in traumatic brain injury. St Emlyn's
JC: TXA in severe head injury. St Emlyn's
Dexamethasone, COVID-19 and the RECOVERY trial. St Emlyn's
JC: AVP in Haemorrhagic Shock. St Emlyn's
JC: Lower GI bleeding guidance
JC: Why do bleeding trauma patients die? St Emlyn's
JC: Can HEMS improve patient outcome in Traumatic Cardiac Arrest? St Emlyn's
Trauma in the UK, who cares?