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ERIC Number: EJ1321189
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1947-380X
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When Direct Pressure Is Not Enough: An Educational Technique for Teaching Wound Packing in Athletic Training Education
Thrasher, Ashley B.; Strapp, Edward J.
Athletic Training Education Journal, v16 n4 p278-286 Oct-Dec 2021
Context: Uncontrolled hemorrhage is a major cause of preventable death. Wound care and managing external hemorrhage are important skills for athletic trainers. Objective: Describe a laboratory activity used to allow students to practice managing uncontrolled external hemorrhage and wound packing. Background: The prevalence of active shooter and other mass casualty events has grown, and a trend to move military-based emergency skills into civilian casualty care has emerged. Athletic trainers are uniquely positioned to respond to catastrophic events at the time of injury. Controlling hemorrhage and rapidly applying a tourniquet or administering wound packing have a great effect in preventing death due to severe hemorrhage. Description: An educational technique using a pork shoulder was implemented to provide students with experience in wound packing. Clinical Advantage(s): Students describe this activity as a beneficial way to gain experience on an important skill not often seen in the clinical education setting. Conclusion(s): Faculty may consider implementing wound packing using a pork shoulder as a laboratory activity when teaching wound care and external hemorrhage management.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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