PRE-HOSPITAL TRAUMA LIFE SUPPORT

Course Directors:

Tatjana Rajkovic (Serbia), Ovidiu Popa (Romania)

The course is for: residents/specialist, nurses.

Registrations are made through the application, within the limit of 24 seats.

Location & date

Continental Forum Hotel, 29 – 30 May, 2024

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29TH, 2024

08.00 Lesson 1: Welcome and Introduction
08.15 Baseline Patient Simulations
08.30 Lesson 2: Trauma Assessment and eXanguinating Hemorrhage
09.15 X: Skills and Patient Simulations

•  Required skills

• TQ application
• Wound packing
• Pelvic binder
• Trauma assessment

•  Optional skills

• Junctional TQ
Patient Simulations: X (eXsanguinating hemorrhage)
10.00 Coffee Break
10.15 Lesson 3A: Airway
11.15 Lesson 3B: Breathing, Oxygenation, and Ventilation
12.15 Lunch Break
13.15 A & B: Skills and Patient Simulations

• Required skills

• Basic airway
• Supraglottic airway

• Optional skills

• Surgical cric
Patient Simulations: A & B
14.15 Lesson 4: Circulation
15.15 Coffee Break
16.00 C: Skills and Patient Simulations

• Required skills

• Needle decompression

• Optional skills

• IO access
Patient Simulations: C
17.00 Questions
17.15 End of Day 1

THURSDAY, MAY 30TH, 2024

08.00 Group Discussion and Review of Day 1
08.15 Lesson 5: Disability – Traumatic Brain Injury
09.15 Lesson 5: Disability – Spinal Injury
10.15 Coffee Break
10.30 D: Skills and Patient Simulations

•  Required skills

• Rapid extrication

•  Optional skills

• Splinting
Patient Simulations: D
11.30 Lesson 6: Expose/ Environment
12.00 Lunch Break
13.00 E: Skills and Patient Simulations

•  Patient Simulations: E
13.30 Lesson 7: Pain Management and Additional Injuries
14.00 Patient Simulations: Other Injuries and Special Considerations

•  Patient Simulations: Instructor Choice
14.30 Lesson 8: Optional Lesson and Simulations
15.30 Patient Simulation Capstone
16.15 Final Written Evaluation
16.45 – 17.00 Questions and Adjourn