Emergencies: Specific Traumas — Emergency Medicine and Trauma

Emergency Room · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Compendio fisiopatológico, anatomo-clínico y terapéutico avanzado de las lesiones traumáticas específicas. Manejo sistémico, algoritmos de rescate y toma de decisiones crítica basada en la evidencia científica actual.

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. Brain Trauma (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. · Urethra 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