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Description
The Procedures Course is designed to enable emergency and critical care physicians develop the mastery necessary to confidently perform a wide range of basic and complex resuscitative procedures when the time comes. Procedural teaching will be conducted by a group of renowned experts in trauma management from the Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, Australasia’s largest trauma service, and numerous other trauma centres from across Australia, Europe and the UK. Teaching will be enhanced by the use of un-embalmed cadavers and low cadaver-to-participant ratio. THE PROCEDURES Surgical airway (cricothyroidotomy) Orbital decompression (lateral canthotomy and cantholysis) Pleural decompression (finger thoracostomy and pleural drainage)Vascular access (MAC line / RIC line / Intraosseous access) Temporary trans-venous cardiac pacing Pericardial decompression (including resuscitative thoracotomy) Retrieval limb amputation Escharotomy Resuscitative hysterotomy