7.3.4FCA_ISection
Technical skills: Clinical
lines 2671–2671id: 7.3.4
16 items
- 7.3.4.1FCA_IPreoperative assessment, including detection and stabilisation of life-threatening injuries while planning the safest anaesthetic technique
- 7.3.4.2FCA_ISecuring an airway and performing a rapid sequence induction with the appropriate immobilisation and care of cervical spine injuries
- 7.3.4.3FCA_ICricothyroidotomy and percutaneous tracheostomy
- 7.3.4.4FCA_IAwake fibreoptic intubation and other advanced airway techniques
- 7.3.4.5FCA_IManagement of the hypoxic patient and the patient with trachea-bronchial injury/flail chest
- 7.3.4.6FCA_IIntercostal drain insertion and management
- 7.3.4.7FCA_IDiagnosis and management of life-threatening haemorrhage in the polytrauma patient; particularly haemorrhage due to chest trauma, abdominal trauma, pelvic trauma and major vascular injury
- 7.3.4.8FCA_ICannulation of major vessels for volume resuscitation
- 7.3.4.9FCA_IInitial assessment and management of acute traumatic brain injury, unstable spinal injury (including clearing the cervical spine), acute spinal cord injury and neurogenic shock
- 7.3.4.10FCA_IManagement of raised intracranial pressure and multidisciplinary planning for prioritisation of surgical interventions
- 7.3.4.11FCA_IUse and interpretation of central vascular monitoring, including the cardiac output monitor
- 7.3.4.12FCA_IRapid transfusion and fluid warming devices
- 7.3.4.13FCA_IBlood salvage and conservation
- 7.3.4.14FCA_IRole and controversies of Regional and Neuraxial techniques in trauma Airway emergencies, difficult and failed airway emergencies.
- 7.3.4.15FCA_IHypoxia, abnormal end- tidal CO2 levels, and abnormal airway pressures.
- 7.3.4.16FCA_IMajor intraoperative events including bronchospasm, thromboembolic events, arrhythmias, tension pneumothorax, cardiac tamponade, respiratory and cardiac arrest, hypovolaemia, distributive, cardiogenic, and obstructive shock, acute myocardial ischaemia, acute pulmonary oedema, aortic dissection, aspiration of gastric contents, massive haemoptysis, coma, prolonged seizures, anaphylaxis, and fat and air embolism.