Orthopaedic Trauma Association Core Curriculum Presentation Course. Powerpoint Presentation made by well known authorities in the area and hosted by the OTA. You may use and edit these presentations for educational purposes provided you give credit to the original author and the OTA

Early Management of Patients with a Head Injury. SIGN Guideline
SIGN Publication No. 46 ISBN 1899893 27 X Published August 2000

Notes on the assessment of head injuries -
Indications for skull xray
Glascow Coma Scale
Indications for admission
Indications for CT Scan
Referral to neurosurgeon

Orthopaedic Trauma Association Core Curriculum Presentation Course. Powerpoint Presentation made by well known authorities in the area and hosted by the OTA. You may use and edit these presentations for educational purposes provided you give credit to the original author and the OTA

outline
* reception
* primary survey
* secondary survey
* radiology
* procedures
* limb injuries
* spinal injuries

Orthopaedic Trauma Association Core Curriculum Presentation Course. Powerpoint Presentation made by well known authorities in the area and hosted by the OTA. You may use and edit these presentations for educational purposes provided you give credit to the original author and the OTA

Schultz & Dang 2005
Orthopedic surgery plays a key role in the treatment of the polytraumatized patient. In a study at Brown University, gunshot wounds required more orthopedic trauma resources than other surgical areas. The orthopedic surgeon is a member of a team consisting of many specialists, including emergency medicine physicians, trauma surgeons, neurosurgeons, and other surgical subspecialists. Each person on that team should be familiar with the basics of trauma resuscitations, outlined below.
Synonyms and related keywords: polytrauma, poly-trauma, poly-traumatized patient, multiple trauma, multitrauma patient, initial management of the trauma patient, orthopedic trauma, polytrauma, advanced trauma life support, ATLS, blunt trauma, MVA, motor vehicle accident, car accident, RTA, rad traffic accident, low-velocity trauma, high-velocity trauma, penetrating trauma, fracture, primary survey, secondary survey, traumatic shock, gunshot wound

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
Initial Orders for the Trauma Patient:
References
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

OTA Paper 2004: A Study in 13,301 Patients from the German Trauma Registry
Purpose The NISS is a recent modification of the ISS, calculated from the sum of the squares of AIS for the three worst injuries, regardless of body region. The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive value of NISS in our usual population of patients with a predominantly blunt-injury mechanism.
Conclusion: The NISS was found to be superior or equivalent to the ISS and AISmax for prediction of all investigated outcomes in a population of typical European trauma patients.