Trauma and Academic teaching
Arriving in the trauma unit yesterday early morning 3 patients just declared deceased… one 16 yrs old in a petrol bomb fire… all 95-98% full thickness burns full resus was put in place but the injuries to futile.
Onto DREAM teaching- the registrar teaching sessions. Critical analysis of C spine and head injuries articles in paediatrics- sensitivity and specificity false negatives/true positives/predicated values! Case presentations and ECG’s. Excellent teaching and facilitating by Prof K and EM consultant RD, highly regarded reg training programmes at Wits Uni.
Then the afternoon was again fairly quiet, the trauma students nurses got shown around as they were starting the course (all qualified nurses), I did quick session on ABGs and hyper/hypokaelmia. They all showed good knowledge.
Today I attended ATLS for doctors SA style, again very good. The surgical skills where on full pigs. They covered some PHTLS in the sessions too. Very good ATLS instructors, seemingly they hold the same challenges as us- difficult to get faculty members to run the programmes and are hugely oversubscribed.
No comments:
Post a Comment