Emergency Trauma Management (ETM) Course - Sunshine Coast

This Conference has been CANCELLED.

Emergency Trauma Management (ETM) Course is organized by Emergency Trauma Management (ETM) and will be held from Sep 07 - 09, 2020 at Surfair Beach Hotel, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. This course has been approved for a maximum of 22.5 CME points.

Who is the course for?
ETM Course is targeted at Australian and New Zealand Senior Emergency Registrars and Consultants, however a wide range of specialities have attended and are welcome at the course, including:

• Rural GP’s
• Anaesthetic trainees
• ICU trainees
• Surgical trainees
• Trauma Registrars (adult and paediatric)

Description:
ETM is a 3-day face-to-face course that teaches trauma reception and resuscitation from the Australasian Emergency Medicine perspective, with a focus on practical trauma resuscitation, trauma team-leading and trauma team-member skills. Our course has a strong focus on communication in particular resuscitation room management, the shared mental model and closed loop communication. We are relevant to nursing and medical staff who work in trauma centres, metropolitan, regional and remote environments.

Course Features:
Short, focused lectures, simulation scenarios and small group interactive sessions including:
• RRM: Resus Room Management - modern ED team leading/team member skills
• Airway: Standard/difficult/failed intubation, cricothyroidotomy
• Chest: Decompression – needle/finger/tube thoracostomy
• Vascular access: Rapid Infuser Catheter (RIC) line and intraosseous needle (EZ-IO) insertion
• Orthopaedic: Spinal immobilisation, pelvic binder, CT-6 femoral traction splint application
• Other procedures: CAT/SOF tourniquet application, lateral canthotomy
• Management: Management of traumatic cardiac arrest
• Radiology: Trauma x-ray, CT and FAST scan interpretation
• Transport: Transport and retrieval of the trauma patient

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.