7.3.4DASection
Technical skills: Clinical
lines 2490–2490id: 7.3.4
13 items
- 7.3.4.1DAPreoperative assessment, including detection and stabilisation of life-threatening injuries while planning the safest anaesthetic technique
- 7.3.4.2DASecuring an airway and performing a rapid sequence induction with the appropriate immobilisation and care of cervical spine injuries
- 7.3.4.3DACricothyroidotomy and percutaneous tracheostomy
- 7.3.4.4DAAwake fibreoptic intubation and other advanced airway techniques
- 7.3.4.5DAManagement of the hypoxic patient and the patient with trachea-bronchial injury/flail chest
- 7.3.4.6DAIntercostal drain insertion and management
- 7.3.4.7DADiagnosis and management of life-threatening haemorrhage in the polytrauma patient; particularly haemorrhage due to chest trauma, abdominal trauma, pelvic trauma and major vascular injury
- 7.3.4.8DACannulation of major vessels for volume resuscitation
- 7.3.4.9DAInitial assessment and management of acute traumatic brain injury, unstable spinal injury (including clearing the cervical spine), acute spinal cord injury and neurogenic shock
- 7.3.4.10DAManagement of raised intracranial pressure and multidisciplinary planning for prioritisation of surgical interventions
- 7.3.4.11DAUse and interpretation of central vascular monitoring, including the cardiac output monitor
- 7.3.4.12DARapid transfusion and fluid warming devices
- 7.3.4.13DABlood salvage and conservation