Trauma Anesthesia Management: How Both You and Your Patient Can Survive Trauma (1.25 Class A CE)

Monday, August 12

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Location: Regency Ballroom A, Ballroom Level, West Tower

Speaker(s)

Dawn Lewellen, MHS, CRNA

Staff CRNA
Parkland Hospital
Arlington, Texas

Trauma anesthesia management is unfamiliar to many CRNAs and trauma cases can be challenging even for experienced CRNAs since trauma patients arrive with no advanced warning. This presentation will review the current practice of trauma anesthesia for the CRNA along with the latest trauma research. Armed with this knowledge, the CRNA will comfortable managing the complexity of trauma anesthesia.

Learning Objectives:

List the latest changes in Advanced Trauma Life Support and Hemostatic Resuscitation.
Develop an induction and maintenance anesthetic plan for a patient in hemorrhagic shock.
Describe the lethal triad of death in trauma and anesthetic interventions to improve patient outcomes.