These courses are intended for internal hospital staff.

Activity Description:

This is a virtual CME-certified educational intervention designed to address the identified gaps in the evaluation and treatment of the Hypotensive Trauma Patient in the Pre-hospital Setting. Among the principal vital signs, blood pressure offers medical providers valuable insight into certain aspects of their patients' clinical status, such as intravascular volume and degree of hemorrhagic shock (Damme CD, Luo J, Buesing KL, Isolated prehospital hypotension correlates with injury severity and outcomes in patients with trauma, Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open 2016;1:e000013. doi: 10.1136/tsaco-2016-000013). Hypotension in trauma patients typically occurs after loss of 30% of total blood and, if persistent, can lead to end-organ injury resulting from hypoperfusion and uncompensated shock (J Trauma 2010 Jun; 68:1289). This hybrid format allows for convenient access and thus reach a broad audience of medical professionals. Continuous education needs of EMS staff to keep current on management and assessment of various medical problems that can/will happen. Discuss up to the minute EMS news, review articles and utilize best practices in managing urgent care and critical patients. Increase knowledge for all EMS staff on situations that have occurred and to increase health care providers awareness on guidelines and procedures.

Target Audience: 

Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistance, Residents, Medical Students, Emergency Medical Services

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the Importance of recognizing the hypotensive trauma patient and how that effects patient outcomes
2. Describe the logistics of the primary survey beyond “Just do the ABCs”
3. List the procedures and interventions to treat shock on the primary survey

Accreditation:

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Credit Designation:

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1^TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Commercial Support:  

This Activity was developed without support from any ineligible company.*The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Note: The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests – unless the provider of clinical services is owned, or controlled by, and ACCME defined ineligible company.

Disclosure: 

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division is committed to providing CME that is balanced, objective, and evidenced-based. In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards for Integrity and Independence all parties involved in content development are required to disclose all conflicts of interest with ACCME defined ineligible companies. The HCA Healthcare Continental Division has identified, reviewed, and mitigated all conflicts of interest that speakers, authors, course directors, planners, peer reviewers, or relevant staff disclose prior to the delivery of any educational activity. The CME planning committee who are in a position to control the content of this CME Activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.