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LIVE VET NURSE COURSE

Emergency Nursing of the Trauma Patient

A practical 2-week online course delivering the latest evidence-based strategies to confidently resuscitate trauma patients with life-threatening injuries and complex polytrauma.

  • Vet Nurse/Tech
  • Starts February 23, 2026
  • 19:30 AEDT
  • 2 Weeks
  • 10 Race-Approved CPD Points

This course includes

  • Live Online Weekly Tutorials
  • Access to Tutorial Recordings
  • 10 Race-Approved CPD Points
  • Protocols For Your Practice
  • Graded Course Assessment
  • Discussion Forums
  • Comprehensive Learning Resources
  • Extra Course Resources

Course Blurb

Resuscitation of the trauma patient is complex, and involves the need to both rapidly identify, as well as manage life-threatening abnormalities in the patient, in a manner that optimises positive outcome for the patient. Our knowledge of optimum resuscitation strategies is evolving rapidly too – making it challenging to be sure we’re doing the best for our patients! This 2-week online course is designed to help! We’ve scoured the literature, to bring you the latest knowledge on effective strategies for resuscitation of your next trauma patient – whether they have a haemoabdomen, pulmonary contusions, urinary rupture head trauma – or even severe polytrauma!

Course Outline

The first 60 minutes of resuscitation efforts are vital in the trauma patient – so much so that it has been called “The Golden Hour” of treatment, that has enormous implications for our patients chance of survival. This week, you’ll learn the essential nursing skills and interventions that are required to give your patients the best chance – including how to triage appropriately, how to recognise respiratory compromise (and what to do about it!), how to diagnose and treat shock, and how to assess and manage acute brain injury. What’s more, you’ll also gain insights into essential diagnostics to prepare for too!

Polytrauma occurs when a patient sustains severe injury to multiple body systems, and usually signifies significant impact of body injury. Knowing how to effectively manage these patients is crucial to improving survival. This week, we’ll detail how to make crucial decisions in the resuscitation of the poly-trauma patient, how to prioritise treatment, and present real cases to illustrate how to approach these critical patients!

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this course, the participant will have a sound knowledge of the following:
  • The latest recommendations on the use of intravenous fluid therapy and transfusion therapy in the management of haemodynamic instability in patients with poly-trauma, including fluid type, volume and resuscitation end-points
  • The approach to stabilisation of the patient with trauma to multiple body system (poly-trauma), including decision-making, resuscitation goals, analgesia, monitoring and emergency therapy
  • How to provide essential nursing care and monitoring to the trauma patient, with a view to optimising patient outcomes within the veterinary team environment.

Course Tutor

Dr Philip Judge

BVSc MVS PG Cert Vet Stud MACVSc (Vet. Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine of Dogs)

This course is supported by our free webinar

Updates in the Management of Traumatic Brain Injury

  • Dr. Philip Judge
  • February 4, 2026

AUD 199

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Dr Philip Judge

BVSc MVS PG Cert Vet Clin Stud MACVSc (Vet. Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine of Dogs)

Philip graduated from Massey University in New Zealand in 1992, and spent 7 years in small animal practice before undertaking a 3-year residency in veterinary emergency and critical care at the University of Melbourne in 1998.

Following his residency, Philip worked for nearly 6 years at the Animal Emergency Centre in Melbourne, becoming the Senior Veterinarian at the centre in 2004. In 2006, Philip undertook a 1-year surgical externship before moving to Townsville to take up the position of Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care at JCU. Philip is also co-founder, and director of Vet Education Pty Ltd (www.veteducation.com) – one of Australia’s leading providers of online continuing education for veterinarians and veterinary nurses.

Philip has published numerous manuals and guides concerning emergency medicine, including a CRI manual, haematology and biochemistry interpretation guide, emergency anaesthesia guide, and a ventilation therapy manual for small animals, in addition to being published in peer reviewed literature.

Philip’s key interests in veterinary science include respiratory emergencies, ventilation therapy, envenomations and toxicology.

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