Education
Regional Education Committee
The STRAC Regional Education Committee meets to provide an open, consensus-driven, environment in the development of educational opportunities. We facilitate efficient and appropriate pre-hospital and hospital care of patients who are suffering acute time-dependent pathologies. Hospitals and EMS agencies with an interest in the educational offerings provided by STRAC should have a representative at the STRAC Educational Committee meetings.
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Common Course Descriptions
Advanced Medical Life Support
Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) remains the gold standard of education for emergency medical assessment and treatment. Endorsed by the National Association of EMS Physicians, AMLS emphasizes the use of the AMLS Assessment Pathway, a systematic tool for assessing and managing common medical conditions with urgent accuracy.
In the third edition of AMLS, students learn to recognize and manage common medical crises through realistic case-based scenarios that challenge students to apply their knowledge to highly critical patients. The course emphasizes the use of scene size-up, first impression, history, interactive group discussion on differential diagnosis and potential treatment strategies, and physical exam to systematically rule out and consider possibilities and probabilities in treating patients’ medical crises. The third edition AMLS library of patient simulations offers students an opportunity to apply critical thinking skills to a variety of patient presentations. Additional features include patient simulation monitor images and ECGs provided by iSimulate, to enhance students’ experience.
The course utilizes the AMLS textbook and course manual, and covers the following topics:
– Respiratory disorders
– Cardiovascular disorders
– Shock
– Sepsis
– Neurological disorders
– Endocrine/Metabolic disorders
– Environmental emergencies
– Infectious disease
– Abdominal disorders
– Toxicological emergencies
– Exposure to hazardous materials
AMLS is appropriate for EMTs, paramedics, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse anesthetists and physicians. AMLS is accredited by CAPCE and recognized by NREMT.
Advanced Trauma Life Support
Injured patients present a wide range of complex problems. The Advanced Trauma Life Support® (ATLS®) Student Course presents a concise approach to assessing and managing multiply injured patients. The course presents doctors with knowledge and techniques that are comprehensive and easily adapted to fit their needs. The skills described in the manual represent one safe way to perform each technique, and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) recognizes that there are other acceptable approaches. However, the knowledge and skills taught in the course are easily adapted to all venues for the care of patients.
The ACS and its Committee on Trauma (COT) have developed the ATLS program for doctors. This program provides systemic and concise training for the early care of trauma patients. The ATLS program provides participants with a safe, reliable method for immediate management of the injured patient and the basic knowledge necessary to:
Course Content:
– Assess the patient’s condition rapidly and accurately
– Resuscitate and stabilize the patient according to priority
– Determine if the patient’s needs exceed a facility’s capacity
– Arrange appropriately for the patient’s inter-hospital transfer (who, what, when, and how)
– Assure that optimum care is provided and that the level of care does not deteriorate at any point during the evaluation, resuscitation, or transfer process
The Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN) Course is taught concurrently with approved Advanced Trauma Life Support® (ATLS®) Courses. Benefits of the ATCN Course include an educational, team building, collaborative, synchronized approach to trauma care as trauma nurses share didactic lectures with the physician attendee of the ATLS® Course. Physicians and nurses caring for trauma patients have the opportunity to share a common language and approach to trauma care. When the ATLS attendees break out for physician skill stations the ATCN nurses join small group trauma nursing skills stations.
These ATCN® skill stations are based on an interactive “hands-on”, scenario-based approach to adult education. The practical testing stations allow the ATCN students to demonstrate the application of ATLS and ATCN information on a moulaged patient. ATCN students are given both the ATLS Student Manual and the ATCN Student Manual.
The ATCN course was developed in response to a need for advanced trauma education for nurses. The ATCN course has been operational for over twenty years and is under the auspices of the Society of Trauma Nurses (STN). STN is a professional, international nursing organization that spans the continuum of trauma care. The STN-ATCN® Program verifies successful completion of the ATCN® Course and provides continuing education credit for completion of a course.
ATCN is currently available in over 20 states across the USA, and is also internationally including Denmark, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Hong Kong, Sweden, Puerto Rico, Spain; all offer both student and faculty courses.
For doctors who infrequently treat trauma, the ATLS course provides an easy-to-remember method for evaluating and treating the victim of a traumatic event. For doctors who treat traumatic disease on a frequent basis, the ATLS course provides a scaffold for evaluation, treatment, education, and quality assurance. In short, ATLS is a measurable, reproducible, and comprehensive system of trauma care.
Prehospital Trauma Life Support
PHTLS courses improve the quality of trauma care and decrease mortality. The program is based on a philosophy stressing the treatment of the multi-system trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. PHTLS promotes critical thinking as the foundation for providing quality care. It is based on the belief that, given a good fund of knowledge and key principles, EMS practitioners are capable of making reasoned decisions regarding patient care. The course utilizes the internationally recognized PHTLS textbook and covers the following topics:
– Physiology of life and death
– Scene assessment
– Patient assessment
– Hemorrhage control
– Airway
– Breathing, ventilation, and oxygenation
– Circulation and shock
– Special populations
The course emphasizes application of trauma education through case studies, skills practice, and patient simulations.
PHTLS is the global gold standard in prehospital trauma education and is taught in over 80 countries. PHTLS is appropriate for EMTs, paramedics, nurses, physician assistants, physicians, and other prehospital practitioners. PHTLS is accredited by CAPCE and recognized by NREMT.
Rural Trauma Team Development
The Rural Trauma Team Development Course (RTTDC) emphasizes a team approach to the initial assessment, resuscitation and transfer of the trauma patient in a systemized, concise manner. The didactic portion of the course addresses the following concepts:
– Airway
– Breathing
– Circulation
– Disability
– Exposure and Environment
– Transfer of Definitive Care
– Pediatric Trauma
– Special Considerations (Pregnancy, Burns, Geriatric)
– Performance Improvement
– Patient Safety
– Communications
The course also includes Team Performances Scenarios, in which the teams use patient scenarios to perform a primary assessment. Developed by the Rural Trauma Committee of the American College of Surgeons on Trauma, RTTDC is based on the concept that in most situations, rural facilities can form a trauma team consisting of at least three core members. Target audience includes individuals who are involved in emergency care of the injured patient, including:
– Physicians
– Physician Assistants
– Nurses Practitioners
– Nurses
– Paramedics
– Emergency Medical Technicians
– Administrative Support
National Whole Blood Academy
The STRAC Regional Whole Blood Consortium presents a novel model for the development of a Low-Titer O-Positive Whole Blood (LTOWB) program. This program provides participants an example of how to augment remote damage control resuscitation strategies; and how to integrate and collaborate with multidisciplinary stakeholder teams, within a trauma system, to optimize efficiency, performance, and safety of a LTOWB program.
The National Whole Blood Academy is presented in beautiful San Antonio, Texas. This two-day event encompasses didactic presentations from LTOWB subject matter experts and an opportunity to visit STRAC Regional Whole Blood Consortium member agencies to discuss real-world wins, challenges, and obstacles experienced during the development and implementation of this program.
Committees and Workgroups
Education
Mike Shown, LP
Trauma Coordinators Education Workgroup
Education Resources
Title | Categories | Creation Date | Link | hf:doc_categories |
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American Trauma Society Courses | Education | August 17, 2023 | education | |
Center for Emergency Health Sciences | Education | August 17, 2023 | education | |
ENA University Course Search | Education | August 17, 2023 | education | |
Air Evac Lifeteam Courses | Education | August 17, 2023 | education | |
Rural Trauma Team Development Course | Education | August 17, 2023 | education | |
TCRN Information | Quick Reference | August 17, 2023 | quick-reference | |
DSHS Grand Rounds | Quick Reference | August 17, 2023 | quick-reference | |
Burn Practice Guidelines | TETAF | Guideline | September 1, 2016 | guideline |