Paediatric Trauma
OVERVIEW
- APLS-style approach to pediatric trauma
MECHANISM
- Pedestrian
- Unrestrained passenger
- HI
- NAI
CLINICAL FEATURES
- Tachycardia
- Vasoconstriction
- Tachypnoea
- Decreased LOC
PRIMARY SURVEY
Airway with C-spine control
- intubate if indicated
Breathing with supplemental O2
- FiO2 1.0
- inspect, palpate, percuss, auscultate -> exclude life threatening injury
Circulation with controlled of external haemorrhage
- IV access
- 20mL/kg crystalloid
Disability and check glucose
- pupils
- AVPU
Exposure
- check temperature
- keep warm
SECONDARY SURVEY
Head to Toe
- give blood (10 mL/kg) for 3rd and subsequent boluses
- catheter
- NGT
- ventilate to normocarbia
- stabilise before transferring
- femoral IV
- IO line (angle away from grow plate)
NEVER FORGET!
- involve parents early
- check temperature
- check glucose
- consider non-accidental injury
Critical Care
Compendium
Chris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at the Alfred ICU in Melbourne. He is also a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. He is a co-founder of the Australia and New Zealand Clinician Educator Network (ANZCEN) and is the Lead for the ANZCEN Clinician Educator Incubator programme. He is on the Board of Directors for the Intensive Care Foundation and is a First Part Examiner for the College of Intensive Care Medicine. He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives.
After finishing his medical degree at the University of Auckland, he continued post-graduate training in New Zealand as well as Australia’s Northern Territory, Perth and Melbourne. He has completed fellowship training in both intensive care medicine and emergency medicine, as well as post-graduate training in biochemistry, clinical toxicology, clinical epidemiology, and health professional education.
He is actively involved in in using translational simulation to improve patient care and the design of processes and systems at Alfred Health. He coordinates the Alfred ICU’s education and simulation programmes and runs the unit’s education website, INTENSIVE. He created the ‘Critically Ill Airway’ course and teaches on numerous courses around the world. He is one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) and is co-creator of litfl.com, the RAGE podcast, the Resuscitology course, and the SMACC conference.
His one great achievement is being the father of three amazing children.
On Twitter, he is @precordialthump.
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