Description
Harvard Advanced Trauma Management 2024
Harvard Advanced Trauma Management 2024
2024 Course Overview
Harvard Advanced Trauma Management 2024 Advanced Trauma Management for the emergency clinician is a 2-day course that provides updates, best practices, and new pathways & protocols regarding the acute care of major trauma patients, focusing on emergency stabilization and triage. The course will focus on advanced, state-of-the-art clinical knowledge and skills, with an emphasis on teamwork, non-technical skills, and best practices in ED management.
The goal of this advanced trauma management course is to prepare emergency clinicians, who already have a strong base in trauma care, to quickly and accurately assess and provide high-quality care for trauma patients. Emphasis will be on optimizing outcomes for patients presenting with high-risk traumatic injuries.
This course is relevant for clinicians working in emergency medicine, critical care, and urgent care and can be applied in the trauma center, community hospital, or remote setting.
Harvard Advanced Trauma Management 2024
Who Should Attend
Harvard Advanced Trauma Management 2024 This course is relevant for clinicians (physicians, nurses, NPs, APPs) working in emergency medicine, critical care, and urgent care in the trauma center, community hospital, or remote settings.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Articulate best practices for treating trauma within special patient populations such as hypotensive, geriatric, pediatric, and pregnant patients.
- Discuss how to rapidly evaluate trauma patients with techniques such as point-of-care ultrasound.
- Identify clinical red flags, such as population-specific vital sign abnormalities, injury mechanisms, or physical exam findings of major vascular injury, to anticipate the patient’s clinical course and care needs.
- Recognize how to incorporate trauma management practices such as Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), anticoagulant reversal, and selection of imaging studies, in their practice.
Harvard Advanced Trauma Management 2024
Monday, September 23, 2024
Introduction & Welcome
Keynote: Problem Solving with the Hypotensive Trauma Patient
Richard Wolfe, MD
Challenging Cases in Torso Trauma
Carlo Rosen, MD
Break
Using POCUS for Trauma Patients: Best Practices
Jesse Schafer, MD
Trauma in Pregnancy: Caring for Two Patients
Leslie Bilello, MD
Massive Transfusion Protocols
Christie Fritz, MD
Lunch
Anticoagulation Reversal Agents
Michael Simpson, MD
Pediatric Trauma
Caitlin Farrell, MD
Time With The Experts: Let’s Talk Trauma (Case Studies)
Leslie Bilello, MD;Â Carlo Rosen, MD; Richard Wolfe, MD;Â Christie Fritz, MD
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Introduction & Welcome
Keynote: Helicopter EMS and Trauma Outcomes
Steve Thomas, MD
Firearm Injuries: Civilian vs. Military
Andrew Ketterer, MD, MA
Break
Traumatic Brain Injury: From Mild to Severe
Jake Hoyne, MD
Spine Injuries
Martina Stippler, MD
Trauma Procedures: Pearls and Pitfalls
Carlo Rosen, MD
Lunch
The Trauma Airway
Brian Gacioch, MD
Special Considerations: The Elderly Trauma Patient
Richard Wolfe, MD
Time With The Experts: Let’s Talk Trauma (Case Studies)
Richard Wolfe, MD; Andrew Ketterer, MD, MA; Carlo Rosen, MD; Christie Fritz, MD; Martina Stippler, MD; Charles Parsons, MD, FACS
