Emergency Medicine Trauma and Orthopaedics Skills Day
Emergency Medicine Trauma and Orthopaedics Skills Day
Pre-course preparation
You must take time to complete the essential pre-course preparation, before you attend the course. It will take one hour (or less)
IMPORTANT: This is the first time in Scotland that we are using ‘Simulation Based Mastery Learning’ techniques for Emergency Medicine Trainees.
This is the same educational concept used on the very successful national IMT Bootcamps for Internal Medicine Trainees that started several years ago in Lothian.
We want this high-quality training in high-risk procedural skills for every EM Trainee in Scotland, building on your skillsets each year linked to the RCEM Curriculum (e.g. T&O skills, chest drains, thoracotomy, resuscitative hysterotomy, etc).
If you haven’t heard of Mastery Learning before today PLEASE WATCH this video: An Introduction to Mastery Learning; introducing you to the concept of Clinical Mastery (16 minutes)
Skill Mastery Large Joint Aspiration (Knee)
This course has ONE Mastery Learning Station for you – so ONLY one set of Essential Pre-learning:
Station A: Skill Mastery Large Joint Aspiration (Knee)
PLEASE READ Knee Joint Aspiration Educational Reading Pack
Knee Joint Aspiration Educational Reading Pack
Content:
- Mastery skills pathway overview
- Learning outcomes
- Indications and risk assessment
- Patient safety considerations
- Potential complications
- Basic sciences
- Equipment and resources
- Procedure
- Appendices
NOTE to be signed off for this skill you will be expected to perform the task as per checklist on page 36
Knee Aspiration Mastery Skills Video
PLEASE WATCH Knee Aspiration Mastery Skills Video (8 minutes)
Optional pre-learning videos
The remainder of the Pre-learning Videos below are optional – general preparation will improve your course experience but they are not essential. They are teaching from Dr Arun Sayal who is an Emergency Physician in NYGH in Toronto. He leads the CASTED course - an excellent International ED-Orthopaedics practical course. He taught our team in Lanarkshire in 2019, I find these videos useful revision.
Station B: Workshop: Distal Radius Fracture Manipulation and Backslab application
Youtube: Fracture Reduction Tips with Arun Sayal (17 minutes)
Station C: Workshop: Dislocation and Relocation of joints (Shoulder, Elbow, Finger, Hip, Patella, Ankle)
Youtube: Dislocations Made Easy (Easier!) with Arun Sayal (28 minutes)
Station D: Simulated Trauma Case: Direct & Indirect haemorrhage control techniques (Wound management, splints, tourniquets, haemostatic agents)
This will be one scenario where you will work as a team together in an ATLS type scenario.