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