This microlearning course was recorded at FDIC with expert Mike Brown, discussing the damage control approach to major trauma, the three things providers can look for to guide their approach, and how this impacts patient outcomes.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 6 mins
This microlearning course was recorded at FDIC with expert Mike Brown, explaining the four principles of trauma care that providers can use as a guide to treating major trauma patients.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 3 mins
This microlearning course was recorded at FDIC with expert Mike Brown, explaining what the trauma triad is (hypothermia, acidosis, coagulopathy) and interventions providers can take to manage the triad, including how whole blood can be used in the field to improve outcomes.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 2 mins
This microlearning course was recorded at FDIC with expert Mike Brown, explaining the complications EMS providers may encounter when making time-compressed decisions in major trauma cases, and how providers can rework their thinking to better treat their patients.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 2 mins
This microlearning course was recorded at FDIC with expert Mike Brown, explaining why providers should change the way they look at prehospital fluids in major trauma patients, especially when there are long transits involved, and the value of administering whole blood instead.
Course Type: Microlearning
Course Duration: 3 mins
This Training Minutes microlearning course explains the process of identifying a penetrating chest wound, as well as how to properly apply chest seals and manage pressure.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 6 mins
This Training Minutes microlearning course demonstrates the use of junctional tourniquets in penetrating trauma to junctional wounds, both as a traditional tourniquet and as a pressure dressing for a packed wound.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 7 mins
This Training Minutes microlearning course explains some of the ways to identify if a patient has a simple pneumothorax or is developing a tension pneumothorax, and steps providers can take once a tension pneumothorax has been identified.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 15 mins
This Training Minutes microlearning course demonstrates how to control a hemorrhage in an upper and lower extremity, and how to confirm the tourniquets have been applied properly.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 7 mins
This Training Minutes microlearning course briefly reviews the anatomy of the cricothyroid and how to identify the location to perform a surgical airway. It also demonstrates the process of performing a surgical cricothyrotomy if an airway cannot otherwise be secured.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 11 mins
This Training Minutes microlearning course covers the management of penetrating trauma to junctional areas, or areas where you can’t place a standard tourniquet, by using wound packing.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 6 mins