2-Day Intensive Trauma Course: Conquer the Deteriorating Patient

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Sean G. Smith, MSc, FP-C, C-NPT, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, TCRN, CPEN, CCRN-CMC (Adult), CCRN-K (Neonatal), CCRN-K (Pediatric) Related seminars and products

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Sean G. Smith, MSc, FP-C, C-NPT, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, TCRN, CPEN, CCRN-CMC (Adult), CCRN-K (Neonatal), CCRN-K (Pediatric), is a humanitarian/flight nurse-paramedic who is triple board-certified in neonatal, pediatric, and adult critical care and emergency medicine. He brings 30+ years of education and team/leadership experience to his presentations from a career that includes global health, tropical medicine, research molecular neuroendocrinology, nuclear engineering technology, US Navy aviation/NASA manned space flight support, and high-performance teams/high-yield pedagogy, dozens of national/international conference presentations and various awards and honors. Author/co-author/review credits include a best-selling laboratory medicine textbook, a chapter on shock in Nursing Core Curriculum a section in the newly released Resuscitation Crisis Manual, numerous other industry-standard textbooks, and several professional association critical care/emergency medicine curriculums and board certification review courses (AACN, ANN, ENA, SCCM, etc.). Additionally, Sean routinely consults on clinical, legal, and certification matters for numerous high-profile hospital systems (Yale, Mayo, etc.). He holds an MSc in Pharmacy/Forensic Science, bachelor’s degrees in business administration, nursing, and molecular biology, and post graduate certificates in Forensic Death Investigation, Legal Consulting, and Tropical Medicine. In addition to being active in a number of professional associations (SCCM, AACN, WADEM, etc.), Sean is a life member of Mensa, The Emergency Nurses Association, and the Air Surface Transport Nurses Association. He has served on the executive committees and in various leadership roles of numerous charities and professional associations and has led/participated in 50+ medical missions (Dominican Republic, Honduras, Morocco, Liberia, Nepal, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Haiti). Sean served as a clinician and educator during the largest Ebola and Cholera outbreaks in recent history and is currently active in building sustainable neonatal-pediatric cardiac critical care capacity in Iraq, as well as serving as part of a national-level multidisciplinary child sexual assault forensics team in Guyana, South America. Hobbies include Scuba diving and vintage science kits, tube amplifiers, and motorcycles.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sean Smith is an independent contractor. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sean Smith is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the Emergency Nurses Association, and the Society for Critical Care Medicine.

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Objectives

1. Conduct a Rapid Trauma Assessment, including FAST and EFAST, focused abdominal sonogram for trauma and ultrasound assessment of trauma.
2. Analyze physiological presentations and clinical signs indicative of specific trauma diagnoses.
3. Distinguish key palliative interventions in the stabilization and projected continuum of care for selected pediatric and adult traumatic injuries.
4. Plan for trauma specific issues in airway management and pulmonary pathophysiology.
5. Assess to determine the most appropriate critical-care stabilization, ongoing care, and transport for a neurological trauma patient.
6. Apply new insights related to the anatomy and physiology of the cardiac system to trauma care.
7. Evaluate physiological presentations and clinical signs indicative of specific trauma diagnoses.
8. Integrate knowledge, skills and abilities to enhance the clinical practice of providers caring for the multi-system trauma patient.
9. Plan appropriate clinical interventions for common clinical problems encountered in the management of the complex, multi-system trauma patient.
10. Choose best responses to patients in crisis using trauma resuscitation algorithms.
11. Determine interventions based upon current research and updates in clinical practice that supersede curriculums.
12. Demonstrate critical thinking skills necessary to successfully complete the TCRN examination.

Outline

• Head to toe physical exam
• Rapid trauma assessment (EXTERNAL trauma)
• Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS): An evolving role in INTERNAL trauma assessment

• Pathophysiology and palliation in hemorrhage control
• Battlefield best practices brought to the bedside
• TXA, Tourniquets, Transfusion, Thoracotomies, the Trauma Triad of Death and more…

• Pain pathways: Transduction, transmission, modulation, and perception
• Rapid pain management relative to specific mechanisms of injury
• The underlying physiologies to consider

• Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, Diffuse Axonal Injury
• Ocular Trauma
• Intubation in Trauma and Emergent Surgical Airways
• Blunt and Penetrating Mechanisms of Cardiac Injury
• Thoracic Cavity Injuries and Pulmonology Considerations
• Eviscerations and Other Peritoneal Cavity Concerns
• Traumatic Considerations Within the Pelvic Girdle
• Long Bone and Extremity Fractures

• Motor vehicle trauma
• Gun shot wounds
• Kinematics of explosion related injuries
• Burn resuscitation management

• Rapid head to toe assessments
• Can’t miss differences between adult and pediatric patients

• Identify Key Missed Moments, Lessons Learned, and Best Practices
  • Assessment
  • Intervention
  • Documentation

Target Audience

• RNs, NPs, PAs, and Paramedics from:
  • Emergency Departments
  • Critical Care
  • Medical-Surgical floors
  • Cardiology
  • Neurology
  • Urgent Care
• Anyone desiring next level skills to proactively assess and intervene in the crashing trauma patient!