PHSA - TSBC - Specialist Trauma Advisory Network: Blunt Splenic Injuries in Adults and Children

The Specialist Trauma Advisory Network (STAN) of BC, in collaboration with provincial thoraco-abdominal experts and trauma clinicians, developed guidelines to enhance communication amongst all clinicians when caring for the major trauma patient.

This course will ensure that clinicians who are providing care for major trauma patients have the clinical knowledge and guidance to care for the adult or pediatric patient who has sustained a solid organ injury.

At the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Understand the initial management of patients with confirmed or suspected blunt splenic injuries
• Determine the indications for operative management and non-operative management in blunt splenic injuries
• Determine what are the indications for angiography or angioembolization in blunt splenic injuries; and what are the indications to transfer patients to a higher level of care