Trauma Critical Care
🔹 Initial Assessment and Triage (ATLS Principles)
🔹 Airway and Ventilation in Trauma
- Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI) in trauma
🔹 Hemorrhagic Shock and Resuscitation
- Hemorrhagic shock
- Permissive hypotension
- Massive transfusion protocols (MTP)
- Balanced resuscitation vs crystalloid overuse
- Resuscitation endpoints
- REBOA (Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of Aorta)
🔹 Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
🔹 Spinal Cord Injury
- cervical spinal injury
- Neurogenic shock
- Spinal shock
🔹 Thoracic Trauma
- Flail Chest
- Pneumothorax
- Myocardial Injury
🔹 Abdominal Trauma
🔹 Orthopedic and Extremity Trauma
- Long bone fractures
- Fat embolism syndrome
- Open fractures
- Crush injury
- Limb compartment syndrome
- Pelvic Injury
🔹 Burns – Initial and Critical Care
🔹 Electrical and Chemical Burns
🔹 Scoring Systems in Trauma/Burns
🔹 Ethics and Special Scenarios
- Trauma in pregnancy
- Elderly trauma
- Organ donation in brain-dead trauma patients
- Triage

