Description

We will be going through the emergency management and stabilisation of patients presented with a head trauma: how to approach a patient with traumatic brain injury, which drugs should be used, and which drugs should be avoided, what prognostic indicators can be used and which potential investigations can be done.

Learning Objectives

• Recognising the early signs of TBI
• Understanding the initial stabilisation of the TBI patient
• Monitoring the head trauma patient
• Knowing which drugs to use and which drugs to avoid
• Using prognostic indicators