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INFORMATION FOR ATTENDESS |
Participants
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Primary Trauma Care
& Primary Trauma Care Instructor course
Information For Attendees |
Primary Trauma Care Foundation UK ( www.primarytraumacare.org ) is
committed to designing and presenting medical training courses for
worldwide application in the prevention and early management of
severe trauma victims in remote areas.
Its initial Primary Trauma Care course is a two-day course designed
by Douglas A Wilkinson an ITU Consultant in Oxford UK and Marcus W
Skinner an Intensive Care Anesthetist in Tasmania, Australia.
The Primary Trauma Care (PTC ) and Instructor Course Programme is
designed to empower local surgeons and anesthetists in injury
prevention strategies, as well as in the management of severe trauma
at the district hospital level. Local rapid devolution of
responsibility for the educational material and courses, has enabled
local practitioners to adapt the PTC programme to train healthcare
professionals to treat severely injured patients in areas where
previously, due to inadequate resources and training, the
comprehensive treatment of these patients was not previously
available. They are taught the basics of primary and secondary
survey and early resuscitation, but within the confines of their
time, experience and resources |
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| What is the Primary
Trauma Care (PTC) course? |
The Primary Trauma Care course is a two-day course designed to
train surgeons, anesthetists and other health professionals involved
in the prevention and early management of severe trauma using the
basics of primary and secondary survey but tailored to the confines
of their time, experience and local resources.
The first course was run in Fiji in the South Pacific in 1997 at the
request of the Fiji School of Medicine. Since then the course has
continued to expand and courses have now been run in Africa, Asia,
China, India, South America, South East Asia and the South Pacific.
The World Health Organization has recognized PTC, and is including
the whole course manual into the WHO learning materials for district
surgical services. At present, the course is run by the Primary
Trauma Care Foundation based in Oxford with its primary sponsor
being the World Federation of Societies of Anesthetists (WFSA). The
Primary Trauma Care Course also has financial support from the Royal
College of Anesthetists (UK), Aus Aid and the Dutch Society of
Anesthetists. Primary Trauma Care also functions as a working
committee within the WFSA and has PTC representatives in Africa,
Asia, Australia and South America..
Primary trauma care differs from other trauma management programmes
in that it is geared to doctors and other health workers working in
rural environments. The PTC Foundation devolves responsibility and
ownership of the courses early and encourages locally trained PTC
doctors to continue the work of training and structuring the trauma
courses in their local area. The manual, slides and acetates and
other resources are translated into the local language, and the
initial courses are run free to the countries that request the
course with funding from different sources including the WFSA. |
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| Objectives of PTC
Course |
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Understand the basics of
trauma management. |
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Achieve proficiency in the rapid and
accurate diagnosis of treatment of trauma. |
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Be able to set up and teach a PTC
programme in your hospital. |
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| Who should do the
PTC Course |
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Surgeons, Orthopaedic
medical officers, medical officers. |
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Anaesthetists, anaesthetic officers,
anaesthetic officers, anaesthetic nurses. |
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Doctors or healthcare
workers involved in the early management and stabilisation of
trauma patients. |
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| Who should do the
PTC Instructor Course |
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Responsibility of a PTC
Instructor : The people doing the PTC Instructor Course should
be committed to carry forward the training and dissemination of
the PTC . They will be supported by the PTC Foundation to carry
out training courses in their areas and disseminate knowledge to
all. |
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Surgeons, Orthopaedic medical officers,
medical officers. |
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Anaesthetists, anaesthetic officers,
anaesthetic officers, anaesthetic nurses. |
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Doctors or healthcare workers involved in
the early management and stabilisation of trauma patients. |
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| What Do I Need To
Run A PTC Course |
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Recognition of the course
by local medical committee/institution and evidence of
involvement of local medical personnel - preferably a range of
senior surgical and anaesthetic doctors, and medical director. |
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Identify a local course coordinator -
with access to phone/fax/email ideally. |
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Liaise with PTC Head Office or WFSA to
identify regional PTC coordinator. |
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Request for a PTC course at least 6
months in advance, 9 months if possible. |
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PTC instructors - a minimum of 2
instructors for every 20 delegates. |
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Materials to consider - Venue / catering
arrangements / OHP or slide projector / mannequins. |
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Arrange for PTC manuals to be translated
into local language if needed. |
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Accurate budget for the
course. The delegates will probably need to be charged a small
levy to cover food, and the venue. |
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A planning strategy for the running of
future PTC courses in your area. |
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