Most courses are free and presented at your facility or at the Parkview Adult Trauma Center and Parkview Pediatric Trauma Center. These courses can be tailored to your specific needs. Contact Sarah Hoeppner at [email protected] to schedule a training date.
Severe Pelvic Trauma
This presentation is designed to provide education to clinical providers related to injury to the pelvic ring. Focus is on recognition of this injury, along with treatment options such as pelvic binding techniques and resuscitation.
Field Trauma Triage
This presentation is designed for prehospital providers, with a focus on developing a solid understanding of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Field Triage Guidelines. Real-life scenarios provide the opportunity for the provider to critically think through destination and transportation issues related to the injured patient.
Stop that Bleed!
This presentation focuses on the hemorrhaging injured patient, including bleeding control techniques, fluid and blood resuscitation and coagulopathy. The material covered in this presentation empowers the provider with strategies for management of these complex patients.
Geriatric Trauma
The geriatric population in the United States is growing at a rapid rate. Although the elderly are less likely to be injured than their younger counterparts, if they are injured, they are more likely to experience a negative outcome. This presentation focuses on the anatomical and physiological changes that occur with aging, and how these changes affect the injured patient. Techniques to improve clinical outcomes are discussed and practiced in scenario-based simulations.
Difficult Airway Roadshow — Lessons Learned in the Cadaver Lab
This course is designed for providers directly or indirectly involved in advanced airway management. Focus is on recognizing the difficult airway and optimizing intubation success. Includes review of evidence-based techniques, confirmed in both the real-life setting and experiences in the cadaver lab.
Difficult Airway Roadshow
This course is designed for providers at all levels, especially those who provide or assist with advanced airway management. Topics include optimizing bag-valve-mask ventilation, intubation, recognition of difficult airways, alternative airways, and rapid-sequence intubation.
Pediatric Airway Management
This course is for providers who are directly or indirectly involved in airway management for children under age 14. Focus is on recognizing the differences in pediatric airway management and interactively applying these principles to real-life practice.
Rapid-sequence Intubation and Rapid-sequence Airway
This course is intended for providers who perform airway management utilizing pharmacological assistance. Focus is on preparation, optimizing success and prevention of negative outcomes related to these procedures.
Waveform Quantitative Capnography: Beyond Tube Confirmation
This course is designed for providers utilizing capnography, and explores the many uses of the patient-monitoring device. Focus is on waveform analysis, relevance of the numerical reading and common pitfalls related to its use.
Inside the Trauma System
This presentation gives an inside view of the trauma system, from EMS response to rehab and everything in-between.
Adult Trauma Tactics for the EMT — Basic
This course is designed for all EMS personnel and teaches current adult trauma care standards. Heavy emphasis is placed on the ABCDE assessment and care model.
Adult Trauma Tactics for the EMT — Advanced
This course includes basic adult trauma tactics with the additional topic of current fluid resuscitation standards in trauma care.
Adult Trauma Tactics for the EMT — Paramedic
This course includes all of the basic and advanced adult trauma tactics, as well as paramedic skill-related topics that include advanced airway management and advanced pneumothoraces management.
Adult Trauma Tactics for the Registered Nurse
This course is designed for emergency care nurses who encounter trauma patients with minor to major injuries on a not-so-frequent basis. Current standards established by the American College of Surgeons are reviewed. Topics include: initial assessment and management, airway and ventilatory management, shock, thoracic trauma, abdominal and pelvic trauma, head trauma, spine and spinal cord trauma, musculoskeletal trauma, thermal injuries, geriatric trauma, trauma during pregnancy and transfer to definitive care.
Pediatric Trauma Tactics for the EMT — Basic
This course is designed for all EMS personnel and teaches current pediatric trauma care standards. Heavy emphasis is placed on the ABCDE assessment and care model.
Pediatric Trauma Tactics for the EMT — Advanced
This course includes basic pediatric trauma tactics with the additional topic of current fluid resuscitation standards in trauma care.
Pediatric Trauma Tactics for the EMT — Paramedic
This course includes basic and advanced pediatric trauma tactics, as well as paramedic skill-related topics that include advanced pediatric airway management and pneumothoraces management.
Pediatric Trauma Tactics for the Registered Nurse
This course is designed for emergency nurses who encounter pediatric trauma patients on a not-so-frequent basis. Current standards established by the American College of Surgeons are reviewed. Topics include: unique characteristics of pediatric patients, airway evaluation and management, breathing evaluation and management, circulation and shock evaluation and management, chest trauma, abdominal trauma, head trauma, spinal cord injury, musculoskeletal trauma and caring for abused children.
Rural Trauma Team Development Course (RTTDC)
This course was developed by the ad hoc Rural Trauma Committee of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma to help rural hospitals develop their trauma teams. The course is designed to improve quality of care in the community by developing a timely, organized, rational response to the care of trauma patients, as well as a team approach that addresses the common problems in initial assessment and stabilization of the injured patient.
Farm Trauma Tactics for the EMS Provider
This course is designed to educate the EMS provider on common dangers and injuries associated with the farming industry. Topics include: the mechanics of extrication, extrication tools, tractors, combines, agricultural equipment, grain and silage storage facility rescues and animal-related incidents.
Individual Case Studies
Review aspects of trauma cases from your own facility: prehospital assessment findings and treatments, trauma center course of treatment, patient progression to rehabilitation and overall outcomes.
