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
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81 tagged resources
Major Trauma – Have your say on the NICE guidance for Major Trauma
Top 10 Trauma papers 2014-2015. St.Emlyn's
Guess or Gestalt in Major Trauma at St.Emlyn's
Trauma: An Elite Sport? Tom Evens at the London Trauma Conference 2014
Karim Brohi on Vascular Injury at the London Trauma Conference
St Emlyn's at the London Trauma Conference – Day 3
St Emlyn's at the London Trauma Conference – Day 2
St Emlyn's at the London Trauma Conference – Day 1