Moderated Tutorials

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Moderated Tutorial 1: Traumatic Brain Injury - part 1
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This tutorial meets a young man who was skateboarding and fell backwards, hitting his head. It is designed to focus on the principles behind the early management of a severe traumatic brain injury while minimizing secondary insults.

Moderated Tutorial 2: Multi Trauma
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This tutorial meets a farmer, trapped underneath a quad bike for an unspecified amount of time. Focus is placed on the principles behind the early management of a multi-trauma patient where entrapment is involved and resources are limited.

Moderated Tutorial 3: Traumatic Brain Injury - part 2
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This tutorial is a continuation of the TBI patient scenario from Moderated Tutorial 1. The focus is the early recognition of neurological deterioration.

Moderated Tutorial 4: Low fall in an elderly
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This tutorial is based on an older patient who has suffered a low fall (<1m). It is designed to focus on the principles of initial management multi-trauma in an older person with an emphasis on respiratory & haemodynamic compromise.

Moderated Tutorial 5: Burns
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This tutorial focuses on a young man who suffered burns to his face, arm, neck and chest sustained while intoxicated around a campfire.

Moderated Tutorial 6: Spinal Trauma
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This tutorial identifies a young male injured while dirt bike riding, c/o neck pain and presenting with absent sensation and movement to lower limbs bilaterally.

Moderated Tutorial 7: Paediatric trauma
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This tutorial is based on the scenario of a 4 year old child, struck by a car when chasing a ball and initially presenting with multiple potential injuries.

Moderated Tutorial 8: Deteriorating patient
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This tutorial introduces a young man involved in an MVA, complicated by alcohol and drug use. The patient is initially stabilised however deteriorates under observation.

Moderated Tutorial 9: Obstetric Trauma
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This tutorial is designed to focus on the principals of trauma care in the obstetric patient. The case scenario involves a woman involved in an MVA who collided with a concrete safety barrier at approximately 85kms/hr.

Moderated Tutorial 10: Should l stay or should l go?
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This tutorial is designed to focus on preparing the trauma patient for retrieval from a small rural emergency department and large urgent care centers to the Major Trauma Services.

Moderated Tutorial 11: Blast injury
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This tutorial meets a 68 year old male involved in a blast injury in a rural area. It focuses on the mechanism and characteristics of blast injury that can lead to both penetrating and blunt trauma, and their management.

Moderated Tutorial 12: Blunt abdominal injury
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This tutorial is designed to focus on the principles behind the early management of a multi trauma patient in country Victoria with limited resources available.

Moderated Tutorial 13: Teamwork and Communication
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This tutorial is designed to focus on effective teamwork and communication in the early management of trauma patients and working together in teams.

Moderated Tutorial 14: Bariatric trauma (Pre-hospital)
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This tutorial is designed to focus on the principles behind the pre-hospital management of a bariatric major trauma patient. We meet Jim who was involved in an MVA and is trapped in the vehicle.

Moderated Tutorial 15: Bariatric trauma (Intra-hospital)
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This tutorial is designed to focus on the principles behind the initial management of a bariatric major trauma patient in the hospital setting and looks at understanding the anatomical and physiological differences.

Moderated Tutorial 16: Resuscitation in Trauma
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This tutorial is designed to focus on resuscitation priorities for trauma patients in cardiac arrest over conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation methods.

Moderated Tutorial 17: Blunt chest trauma
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In this tutorial we meet a 49 year old cyclist who has lost control on a corner while travelling at 60km/hr. and immediately complains of R) sided chest pain.

Moderated Tutorial 18: Submersion
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This tutorial focuses on the trauma patient who is further complicated by submersion or drowning. It identifies potential airway and breathing complications as well as discusses rewarming techniques.

Moderated Tutorial 19: Electrical burn injury
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In this tutorial we meet a young electrician, found unconscious near the generator he was repairing.

Moderated Tutorial 20: Facial trauma
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This tutorial is designed to focus on rapid assessment and identification of actual or immediate life threats from facial trauma. This includes airway management principles and preparation for the difficult intubation.

Moderated Tutorial 21: Haemorrhagic shock
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This tutorial is designed to focus on the principals of trauma care in the bleeding patient. Discussion will involve identification and management of shock as well as volume replacement including massive transfusions protocols.

Moderated Tutorial 22: Paediatric Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
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This tutorial introduces Gracie, a 14 month old child who rolled off the couch and has suffered a head injury.

Moderated Tutorial 23: Penetrating abdominal injury
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In this tutorial we meet a 62 year old farmer who has sustained a penetrating injury to his abdomen from a steer.

Moderated Tutorial 24: Musculoskeletal injury
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Here we meet a 24 year old whose arm has been caught in a machine at work. This tutorial focuses on complications due to a crush/entrapment injury, assessing viability of the limb and referral to an appropriate service for definitive care.