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AHA ALS: Advanced, Trauma Module
Class Price:	$20.99

ALS: Advanced is eLearning modules for advanced healthcare providers seeking additional content or Continuing Education (CE) Credit beyond ACLS.

The ALS: Trauma Module covers the systematic evaluation of a trauma patient, including performing initial lifesaving maneuvers. Course content includes the following:

• Assessment, approaches, and treatment of systematic evaluation of a trauma patient,
• Key concerns during an assessment,
• Adjuncts to the primary trauma survey,
• Airway obstruction maneuvers and securing the airway,
• Identifying shock and providing treatment,
• Hemodynamic instability and hemorrhage control,
• Trauma resuscitation,
• Permissive hypotension,
• Massive transfusions, and
• Traumatic brain injury, burn injuries, and musculoskeletal injuries.

After successfully completing this course, students should be able to:

• Describe the systematic evaluation of a trauma patient including performing initial lifesaving maneuvers,
• Explain how to ensure that a trauma patient has a secure and functional airway,
• Describe the pathophysiology of shock in trauma,
• Identify sources of hemodynamic instability and how to perform lifesaving maneuvers for initial hemorrhage control,
• Describe the management of trauma patients with traumatic central nervous system injury, burn injuries, and fractures, and
• Explain the indications and contraindications of resuscitative thoracotomy in case of traumatic cardiac arrest.