EM Cases · Rural and retrieval trauma
Rural major trauma package — resus station
ACEM OSCE on damage-control resuscitation, early retrieval activation and packaging.
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Target exams
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Prompt
Remote ED receives hypotensive blunt trauma; fixed-wing retrieval 3 hours away.
Stem
All persons, presentations and observations in this station are fictional and invented for teaching assessment; they do not describe a real person.
References3ShowHide
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- [3]Klimek O, Dudek J, Czesyk A, et al. The Importance of the "Damage Control" Strategy in Multiple Organ Injuries, Pathophysiology and Principles of Hemorrhage Control J Clin Med, 2026.PMID 41976850