7.3.4FCA_IISection
Technical skills: Clinical
lines 2671–2671id: 7.3.4
16 items
- 7.3.4.1FCA_IIPreoperative assessment, including detection and stabilisation of life-threatening injuries while planning the safest anaesthetic technique
- 7.3.4.2FCA_IISecuring an airway and performing a rapid sequence induction with the appropriate immobilisation and care of cervical spine injuries
- 7.3.4.3FCA_IICricothyroidotomy and percutaneous tracheostomy
- 7.3.4.4FCA_IIAwake fibreoptic intubation and other advanced airway techniques
- 7.3.4.5FCA_IIManagement of the hypoxic patient and the patient with trachea-bronchial injury/flail chest
- 7.3.4.6FCA_IIIntercostal drain insertion and management
- 7.3.4.7FCA_IIDiagnosis 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_IICannulation of major vessels for volume resuscitation
- 7.3.4.9FCA_IIInitial 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_IIManagement of raised intracranial pressure and multidisciplinary planning for prioritisation of surgical interventions
- 7.3.4.11FCA_IIUse and interpretation of central vascular monitoring, including the cardiac output monitor
- 7.3.4.12FCA_IIRapid transfusion and fluid warming devices
- 7.3.4.13FCA_IIBlood salvage and conservation
- 7.3.4.14FCA_IIRole and controversies of Regional and Neuraxial techniques in trauma Airway emergencies, difficult and failed airway emergencies.
- 7.3.4.15FCA_IIHypoxia, abnormal end- tidal CO2 levels, and abnormal airway pressures.
- 7.3.4.16FCA_IIMajor 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.