SURI 3509 Emergency Medicine II
This course is designed to teach the management and clinical care of a trauma patient in accordance with emergency medicine guidelines. Topics include triage during a mass casualty incident, analysis of scene safety, scene situation and kinematics into the assessment of a trauma patient. Other related topics include the physiological characteristics of combat injuries, primary and secondary survey on a patient, chest tube insertion, needle thoracentesis, and surgical cricothyrotomy.