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ForwardSTAT MedEvac Trauma Course September 2025
The STAT Trauma Course is a one-day, advanced trauma training program designed for critical care transport clinicians. This course bridges the educational gap between ITLS and ATLS by incorporating advanced airway techniques, trauma resuscitation strategies, invasive procedures, and diagnostic tools relevant to high-acuity prehospital and interfacility trauma care. Through a combination of lecture-based instruction and hands-on skill stations, participants will enhance their ability to assess, manage, and transport critically injured patients in dynamic environments.
Target Audience
Nurse
Physician
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this 8-hour course, participants should be able to…
- Perform advanced airway interventions, including surgical airways and video laryngoscopy.
- Apply current trauma resuscitation principles, including permissive hypotension and blood product administration.
- Demonstrate critical surgical and invasive trauma procedures such as chest tube insertion and REBOA.
- Utilize diagnostic tools including FAST ultrasound and waveform capnography in trauma assessment.
- Manage ongoing critical trauma care, including TBI management, mechanical ventilation, and vasopressor use.
Schedule
Morning Session: Didactic Lectures
Time | Topic | Content Summary | ||
0800–0815 | Course Welcome & Objectives | Introduction to the course | ||
0815–0900 | Comprehensive Trauma Critical Care Management Lenny Weiss | Mechanical ventilation, vasopressors, TBI strategies, prolonged transport care | ||
0900 - 1000 | Advanced Airway Management Jay Zhang, EMS Fellow | Surgical airway techniques, video laryngoscopy, ventilator use in trauma | ||
1000–1130 | The Bleeding Patient | Integrated approach to bleeding control, trauma diagnostics (FAST, capno), MTP, and procedural interventions | ||
1130–1230 |
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1230–1300 | Lunch with Case review |
Afternoon Session: Skills Lab & Simulation
Time | Skill Station | Skills Covered |
1300 - 1500 | Station 1: Advanced Airway
Station 2: Chest Trauma Procedures Station 3: ITLS Assessment | Cricothyrotomy, video laryngoscopy, ventilator settings, iGels, SALAD
Chest tube insertion, needle decompression, wound packing, tourniquets ITLS Assessment Primary and Secondary Assessments |
15:00 – 16:00 | ITLS Test |
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Lenny Weiss
Jay Zhang, EMS Fellow
Dr. Josh Brown
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 7 contact hours.
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 7.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 7.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 7.00 Attendance