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Paediatric Trauma and Acute Care course: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s)

14th March 2019WEM Marketing DeptTraumaNo CommentsEoin Walker, extreme medicine, Paediatric Trauma, Paediatric Trauma and Acute Care course, pre hospital care

We asked Eoin Walker, a London HEMS Paramedic, UKMED Team Member, WEM MSc in Extreme Medicine Faculty and our Paediatric Trauma course leader to run through the most frequently asked questions he gets asked regarding the course.

What content do you cover in the Paediatric Trauma course?
The course offers a fully immersive and highly practical hands-on approach to learning including various slow time simulations relevant to situations and scenarios you might find yourself, group workshops and faculty panel discussions. Attending the course will teach you the key skills needed to assess and stabilise a critically ill paediatric trauma patient in a pre-hospital environment including:

Paediatric trauma assessment and airway
IO (Intraosseous infusion) access and pain management
Paediatric traumatic and medical cardiac arrests
Breaking bad news in paediatric death, the 2nd patient
Integrated parent relationship management, non-technical skills and troubleshooting
Collapsed infant from Asthma, Anaphylaxis, Sepsis and Seizures
Medical assessment tools and FOI
Panel discussions with paediatric case scenarios
Kit familiarisation
Variations in approach to paediatric patients including the differences in Airway, Breathing and Circulation

Is cardiac arrest – medical and traumatic covered on the course?
Yes, both are covered across the two days within their own 45 minute integrated workshops, as well as enhanced fidelity simulations to increase learning and improve skills and WEM panel discussions with some of the country’s leading paediatric specialists including specific paediatric case scenarios.

How do you adapt care for a pre-hospital environment?
Decision making in any medical situation can be a challenge, add to that a high stress situation and a paediatric trauma patient and you as the health professional needs to be confident in providing the gold standard of critical care we all aspire to. Within a pre-hospital environment we will teach you how to follow and adapt the ceiling of care principle, where the aim is to provide continuity of care and ensure good communication is prevalent throughout.

Do you cover pain management for children?
Yes, this topic is covered extensively on the first day of the course within a workshop and also as part of slow time simulation reflective of a paediatric fall from height scenario. It’s important to understand the unique and challenging problems a paediatric trauma patient can present with and how best to assess and proficiently manage the patient, to achieve the optimum outcome.

How do you achieve paediatric splintage?
There are various adaptions taught within the course and all will be dependent on the patients’ trauma, range of movement and environment. We will discuss in great detail and focus your skills through hands on practical experience.

Which airway techniques are preferable?
Airway control is a critical skill for any pre-hospital healthcare provider and as such we advocate various airway techniques which will depend on the environment your find yourself in. Techniques will be taught through a combination of taught lectures, workshops, simulation and plenary discussions and will include supplementary additions to both intubating through a supraglottic airway (SGA) and Endotracheal intubation (ETI).

Do you teach around assessment tools in Paediatrics?
Yes, these are essential to form a general impression of our patient and will be used to assess and determine the treatment given. We will teach and discuss the Paediatric Assessment Triangle (PAT) that consists of three areas of assessment: Appearance; Work of Breathing; and Circulation to Skin with adjunctive TICLS – pronounced ‘tickles’ – that looks at muscle tone, irritability, consolability, look (gaze) and speech.

If you want to feel more confident in treating sick children together with how to proficiently manage traumatic and medic paediatric cardiac arrests, then this is the course for you!

To find out more information about our Paediatric Trauma and Acute Care course or to book your place on what we promise will be an incredibly inspiring 2 days, please click here.

5 reasons how our unique trauma courses can enhance your critical care career

26th February 2019WEM Marketing DeptTraumaNo CommentsPaediatric Trauma and Acute Care course, Pre-Hospital Trauma Care course, trauma medicine

Join us on one of our insightful and highly interactive 2 day trauma courses that will teach you the fundamental skills needed to asses and stablise the most difficult of trauma patient cases while working in an extreme pre-hospital environment. By understanding the medical skills required, following a stepwise approach and providing this gold standard of critical care we aspire to, it will lead to improved patient outcomes and survival, quite literally meaning the difference between life and death.

For aspiring critical care and paediatric trauma specialists our Paediatric Trauma and Pre-Hospital Trauma courses provide the perfect introduction and taster to enhance your study and further your career.

The Paediatric Trauma and Acute Care course – often presenting in a high stress situation, these patients present unique and challenging problems for those first to the scene. If you want to feel more confident in treating sick children together with how to proficiently manage traumatic and medic paediatric cardiac arrests then this is the course for you.

Pre-Hospital Trauma Care course – exploring the pathophysiology, primary injuries and secondary injuries involved in trauma, this course will also teach the management of such injuries to minimise sequelae from secondary traumatic injuries and also identify sensitive and specific tools and signs of injury to help identify time critical cases.

5 excellent reasons to attend our Paediatric Trauma or Pre-Hospital Trauma courses:

Learn how to optimise patient care and survival – our trauma workshops are designed to produce a more resilient, effective and efficient approach in treating critically injured patients (both paediatrics and adults) in what will often be extreme and difficult circumstances due to the patient’s trauma, but also regarding the environment you may find yourself in.
Further your career – perfect for nurses, doctors and paramedics wanting to pursue and specialise in trauma care both in and out of the hospital, our trauma courses act as a great introduction to trauma and pre-hospital care. They are a great bridger course, especially for those aspiring to apply for air ambulance positions.
Dynamic and hands on experience – our highly qualified and well-equipped practitioners will deliver content through dynamic medical and trauma simulations, lectures, workshops and group discussions. You’ll learn clinical skills and field proven techniques that will ensure you leave the course feeling more confident in your ability to perform in a highly stressful situation.
Expert team – our expert trauma faculty led by Eoin Walker, Pre-Hospital Mass Causality Incident Management Paramedic and HEMS paramedic will be drawing on their own personal and extensive experience (many with 15 years plus) of attending and practicing pre-hospital and paediatric trauma medicine and sharing their knowledge and skills used on a daily basis to provide a fully-immersive experience of how to optimise the care and survival of the patient
Earn CPD credits – for those attending either our Paediatric Trauma or Pre-Hospital Trauma course, accreditation will be offered (we estimate 12 hours of CPD) through the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Our trauma courses provide the perfect opportunity to increase your pre-hospital medicine skill set enabling you to become a more effective practitioner.

Join us and experience our The Paediatric Trauma and Acute Care course and Pre-Hospital Trauma Care course for yourself. Be part of something amazing and take your extreme medicine career to the next level.
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Would you have the confidence to assess and treat a high-stress Paediatric Trauma case?

Would you have the confidence to assess and treat a high-stress Paediatric Trauma case?

25th July 2018WEM Marketing DeptTrauma1 extreme medicine, Paediatric Trauma, Paediatric Trauma and Acute Care course

Paediatric trauma and the acutely ill is on the rise within the health service, and with plenty of enthusiastic feedback requesting such a course, our Paediatric Trauma and Acute Care course is back by popular demand following its successful launch in 2018.

Eoin Walker, a London HEMS Paramedic, UKMED Team Member, WEM MSc in Extreme Medicine Faculty and the Paediatric Trauma course leader said:

“Paediatric trauma and illness is thankfully so rare that when a case does present itself, there can be a nervousness and anxiety that pre-hospital providers feel when treating these patients. Through my own experience dealing with trauma patients, I truly believe that knowledge breeds confidence, which is why a course such as this new Paediatric Trauma course provides the perfect opportunity to get smart, improve your knowledge and skills and ultimately provide the gold standard of critical care that we aspire to.”

When dealing with our smaller patients, it’s vital to understand a paediatric trauma will need to be handled in a different way, as they will present a different pattern of injury than an adult in trauma, which means the assessment and treatment of the underlying illness will require a different approach that many medical professionals won’t have come up against before. Fortunately, these cases are rare and often unique, but it does beg the question ‘Would you know how to handle and have the confidence to assess, treat and manage such a high-stress situation?

We believe it’s prudent to train for all eventualities, especially when specific knowledge and skills could potentially optimise the outcome and intervention required, which is why this course has been specifically designed for all medical and allied health professionals dealing with paediatric emergency care around the world and for those working in challenging and under-resourced conditions.

Mark Hannaford, Managing Director & Founder of World Extreme Medicine (WEM) added:

“As a parent and the founder of WEM, I have been wanting to get this course off-the-ground for quite a while. Our aim, working with the remarkable Eoin Walker and with a number of well-placed partners, is to make this overseas specific so WEM medics working in low-resourced medical systems will be better equipped to deal with paediatric emergencies helping to save lives and improve, one small step at a time, remote healthcare”

This practical 2-day course will provide universal guidelines on how to treat paediatric trauma patients in a pre-hospital environment, practical integrated workshops and enhanced fidelity simulations providing you with the skills to feel more confident in treating sick children plus group discussions to share knowledge and experiences as well as the opportunity to examine best practice around scene management and high stress situations.

The course will also cover areas such as paediatric trauma assessment and airway, remote paediatric care, intraosseous insertion access and pain management, paediatric traumatic cardiac arrest and medical assessment tools which you may be unfamiliar with. There will be panel discussions with paediatric case scenarios and the opportunity to learn non-technical skills & troubleshooting, a necessity when dealing with paediatric trauma cases as they play such a big part in how you treat the injured patient.

The Paediatric Trauma course aims to enable attendees to:

Feel better equipped and more confident when presented with a paediatric trauma case, so they feel comfortable providing the right assessment and intervention.
Acquire and develop specific skills applicable to paediatric trauma medicine.
Enhance knowledge and skills relating to understanding, diagnosing and treating paediatric trauma when presented.
Understand and develop the non-technical skills required in paediatric trauma cases such as scene management, listening, handover, leadership and following the correct shared mental health model.

To find out more about our Paediatric Trauma and Acute Care course, please click here. Take your medical career to the next level – book your place today!