PRe-Hospital and Emergency Skills in Surgery and REsuscitation for Teams (PRESSURE)
​A multi-professional team training day, focusing on the management of patients with severe and or multiple injuries requiring emergent surgical procedures and resuscitation.  There is specific training on team-working, leadership, followership and decision-making in the high-stakes environment.

Who is the course suitable for?
Team based, 8 teams per course, 6 people per team
Each team should have at least
  • 2 ED consultants/ 1 Cons + 1 final year ED trainee
  • 2 ED nurses/ODP 
  • There is also room for two optional members of the team which can include further nursing staff/intensivist/anaesthetist/surgeons/orthopaedics
Teams from pre-hospital providers are also welcome

Course aims and learning outcomes
This course aims to allow multi-disciplinary teams to develop skills in decision making in the resuscitation of severely injured patients including those with thoracic trauma and the obstetric patient with trauma and practical skills through demonstration and practice on human cadavers, animal models, and hybrid simulation models and to learn about post-resuscitation care.  The first day focuses on skill acquisition and practice including in emergency thoracotomy, emergency hysterotomy, front of neck access in the difficult airway and major haemorrhage management.  The second day is simulation based and offers teams an opportunity to practice team and practical skills in a safe and realistic environment with the assistance of embedded facilitators and plenty of time for meaningful debrief of the group, by the group.

By the end of this course, attendees will be able to:
  • Perform or assist in the performance of emergency surgical procedures for the management of thoracic trauma and traumatic cardiac arrest, including in pregnancy.
  • Have a model of team-working which assists in the management of seriously injured patients
  • Have had an opportunity for practising these practical and team-working skills, and reflect on them.
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PRESSURE has received CPD accreditation from the RCS and the RCOA.

Course duration
2 days

Course date and location
  • 2020 Course date to be advised. 
  • Location - Clinical Skills, Level B, South Academic Block, Tremona Road, Southampton Hospital

Course fee
Free
Refreshments, Lunch and Parking provided
Please note: For those wishing to attend from outside of the Wessex Trauma Network area the cost is £700 per person.

Course leaders
Suzanne Kellett MBBS, FRCA
Consultant Major Trauma Anaesthetist

Other Faculty
Senior surgeons, intensive care doctors, emergency physicians, anaesthetists and nursing and paramedic staff from across Wessex and from London trauma centres