Trauma and Disaster Team Response Course

(Online component available free of charge)

Overview

Rationale

Trauma is a leading cause of preventable mortality and morbidity around the world. It often affects the productive component of a population, leading to adverse impact on social structures and broader economic hardships. Moreover, the burden of trauma is disproportionately felt in developing areas and the outcomes are worse in low and middle resource environments.

As a leading institution in the field of injury, the Centre for Global Surgery at the McGill university Health Centre (CGS-MUHC) has a social responsibility to work with healthcare leadership abroad to better understand the scope of trauma and identify targeted interventions to reduce its impacts. Trauma education and training are a main component of our programs through which we aim to support local healthcare leadership worldwide in developing trauma capacity and building functional trauma system both on a local and regional level.

Trauma and disaster preparedness are essential in emergency context to address and manage trauma appropriately and reduce long term impact on healthcare system. The Trauma and Disaster Team Response© (TDTR©) course was designed by the CGS-MUHC to convey appropriate management of trauma including in disaster response contexts. The course includes a hybrid model with a combination of two components: one online -didactic lectures-, and one in-person -skills sessions, team exercises and simulations- while emphasizing on a multi-disciplinary approach in managing trauma patients.

The course is addressed to a wide range of healthcare professionals including surgeons, nurses, emergency physicians. anesthetists and other allied health professionals working in emergency department settings. The format of the course is flexible and adaptable to different circumstances and settings, the newest update offering didactic lectures online with support from trainers.

The online component of TDTR© is available on the UN platform -free of charge-, derived from our partnership with the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).  

The in-person component could be coordinated with interested institutions/teams, after the successful completion of the online component. You may contact use by completing the online form below.  

Course objectives

 The objectives of the TDTR© course are:

• To attain competency in trauma care and disaster response

• To identify a trauma team

• To understand the roles and responsibilities of the trauma team members in resuscitating a trauma patient

• To describe the role of transfer to higher level care facilities

• To understand the importance of injury surveillance and trauma registries

Course components

 The TDTR© course is divided into 3 main components: lectures, skill sessions and team exercises.

Lectures:

• Introduction, Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability and Exposure, Adjuncts and Secondary Survey, Immediate Life-threatening Injuries, Secondary Life-threatening Injuries, Extremities, Special Considerations (I) – Pediatrics and Pregnancy, Special Considerations (II) – Burns and Pain Management, Transferring the Injured Patient, Trauma Systems and Trauma Registries, Disaster Response and Triage.

Skills Sessions

Airway

• Bagmask, Oro/nasopharyngeal airways, Supra-glottic airways, Intubation

Surgical airway

• Chricothyroidotomy

Chest decompression

• Needle decompression, Finger thoracostomy, Chest Tube

Venous Access/spine immobilization /splint

• Intravenous access, Intra-Osseous, Pelvic Wrap, Basic Splinting, Tourniquet, Spinal immobilization, Logroll

Team Exercises

• Team building exercise, Team based resuscitation, Single injury trauma patient,      Severely injured trauma patient, Mass casualty incident.

TDTR© In-person component can be provided by the CGS in coordination with your institution

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