About Course
EMS Care EMR Chapter E19 | Trauma starts with the introduction to what is Trauma and the details of kinetic energy. The different types of trauma are described, followed by discussions as to what a EMR must do in these situations.
The lessons covered are
- Trauma Overview.
- Bleeding.
- Chest Trauma.
- Special Considerations in Trauma and Multi-system Trauma Part 1, and,
- Special Considerations in Trauma and Multi-system Trauma Part 2.
To get credit for this course, you must watch all the lessons in their entirety, the course review, and pass the quiz at the end with a score of 75% or better.
An Excerpt from the course on Trauma
The following are the rules regarding dressing wounds:
- A dressing and bandage are of little value if they do not help control bleeding. Continue to apply dressing and apply pressure as needed to control bleeding.
- Use sterile or clean materials. Avoid touching dressing in the area that will come into contact with the wound.
- Cover the entire surface of the wound and, if possible, the immediate area surrounding the injury.
- Once a dressing is applied to a wound, it must remain in place. Add new dressings on top of blood-soaked dressings. And,
- When a dressing is removed from a wound, bleeding may restart or increase in rate.