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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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TRAUMA EDUCATION

Trauma Evaluation and Management

TEAM 4th edition will give your learners an innovative and valuable introduction to the early care of the injured patient.

Trauma Evaluation and Management
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The Trauma Evaluation and Management (TEAM)™ course is an introductory course that helps medical and multidisciplinary healthcare professionals evaluate and manage trauma patients. Developed by renowned trauma experts, TEAM includes interactive lectures and clinical trauma case scenario discussions.

Easily integrated into various practice environments, the 4th edition is aligned with the up-to-date findings and best practices of the upcoming 11th edition of the Advanced Trauma Life Support® (ATLS®) course. It also includes information from the ACS Stop the Bleed bystander response program.

Topics Covered

  • Primary Survey
    • External Exsanguinating Hemorrhage
    • Airway
    • Breathing
    • Circulation
    • Disability
    • Environment/Exposure
  • Secondary Survey
  • Thermal Injuries
  • Special Populations
  • Disaster Management and Emergency Preparedness
  • Triage
  • Injury Prevention

Registration

Once you pick a course, contact the Site Coordinator to complete enrollment. 

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Learning Objectives

  • Explain the fundamental principles of initial assessment and management of trauma patients.
  • Identify the correct sequence of priorities using the xABCDE algorithm.
  • Discuss guidelines and techniques used during the initial resuscitation and definitive care phases of care.
  • Describe how a patient’s medical history and mechanism of injury can contribute to the identification of injuries.
  • Outline roles and responsibilities of team members and discuss team-related concepts that ensure optimal care of injured patients.
  • Identify which patients may need early interhospital transfer.
  • Describe strategies for injury prevention.

Contact

For any questions about the TEAM course, contact us at traumaeducation@facs.org.