OBJECTIVE:
This course aims to provide a dynamic new concept which integrates advanced trauma management in extreme situations such as emergencies and large-scale terrorist events, with a coded response to this and a holistic view of medicine tactics.

CONTENT:

• Sequential approach of complex trauma
• Hypoperfusion in trauma
• Critical trauma approach
• Trauma Invasive interventions
• Explosives and blast injuries
• Entrapment and compartmental syndromes
• Transportation Alternatives
• General approach in disasters
• Triade
• Tactical and operational Medicine
• Resource Management in Disasters
• Multiple intervention scenarios
• Communications Media and disaster
• Tactical approach in terrorist scenarios and incidents with multiple victims
• Neurotrauma
• Abdomen/Pelvic trauma
• Alternatives for airway trauma treatment
• Hazardous Materials
• Chemical, biological and radiological substances
• Decontamination procedures in hospital and in the scene
• Trauma in Special Populations

COST:
$475.
INCLUDES: Prehospital care BOOK AND TERRORISM,
SALAMANDRA CERTIFICATE, SMI CERTIFICATE, valid FOR RECERTIFICATION AT THE COSTA RICA COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, lunch, snack, ESTIMATED TIME: 30 HOURS

NEXT DATES(2010):
From April 9, till 11
From October 22, till 24