Emergencies: Specific Traumas — Emergency Medicine and Trauma

Emergency · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Pathophysiological, anatomical-clinical and advanced therapeutic compendium of specific traumatic injuries. Systemic management, rescue algorithms and critical decision making based on current scientific evidence.

What it covers

1. Specific Traumas
2. Biomechanics and Kinematics of Trauma
3. · Energy Transfer Mechanisms
4. · Impact Dynamics in Traffic Accidents
5. Initial and Systematized Evaluation of the Polytraumatized Patient
6. · Primary Survey and Simultaneous Resuscitation
7. Pathophysiology of Shock and Damage Control Resuscitation
8. · The Triad of Death to the Diamond of Death
9. · Principles of Damage Control Resuscitation (DCR)
10. · Viscoelastic Coagulation Monitoring
11. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
12. · Pathophysiology of Primary and Secondary Brain Injury
13. · Cerebral Perfusion Pressure (CPP) Equation
14. · Brain Herniation Syndromes
15. · Marshall Tomographic Classification Scale
16. · Advanced Medical Treatment of Intracranial Hypertension
17. Spinal cord trauma (TRM)
18. · Physiopathological Differentiation: Spinal Shock vs. Neurogenic Shock
19. · Incomplete Spinal Cord Syndromes
20. · ASIA Spinal Injury Classification Scale (American Spinal Injury Association)
21. Immediate Life-Threatening Thoracic Trauma
22. · Tension Pneumothorax
23. · Massive Hemothorax
24. · Unstable Chest (Rib Volet) and Pulmonary Contusion
25. Potentially Lethal Thoracic Injuries
26. · Cardiac Tamponade
27. · Myocardial Contusion (Blunt Cardiac Trauma)
28. Closed and Penetrating Abdominal Trauma
29. · Diagnostic Approach: eFAST Ultrasound
30. · Absolute Indications for Emergency Laparotomy
31. · Organ Injury Classification Scales (AAST — American Association for the Surgery of Trauma)
32. Pelvic Fractures and Hemodynamic Instability
33. · Young-Burgess Biomechanical Classification
34. · Rescue Algorithm in Unstable Pelvic Trauma
35. · REBOA (Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta)
36. Genitourinary Trauma
37. · Kidney Trauma
38. · Bladder Rupture (Bladder)
39. · Urethral Rupture
40. Acute Compartment Syndrome of the Extremities
41. · Pathophysiological Cascade of Microvascular Collapse
42. · The "6 Ps" of Clinical Diagnosis
43. · Urgent Decompression Procedure: Decompressive Fasciotomy
44. Vascular Trauma of Extremities and Rhabdomyolysis
45. · Hard and Soft Signs of Vascular Injury
46. · MESS Scale (Mangled Extremity Severity Score)
47. · Pathophysiology of Rhabdomyolysis and Crush Syndrome
48. Trauma in Special Populations
49. · Trauma in the Pregnant Patient
50. · Pediatric Trauma
51. · Geriatric Trauma
52. Advanced Monitoring, Late Complications and ICU Criteria
53. · Critical Stages of Damage Control Surgery (DCS)
54. · Post-Trauma Multiorgan Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS)
55. · The Tertiary Survey in the Trauma ICU