Defence Medical Services’ REBOA training course
- 4 October 2021
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by BMJ in BMJ Military Health
- Vol. 169 (5), 452-455
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjmilitary-2021-001926
Abstract
Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) enables temporary haemorrhage control and physiological stabilisation. This article describes the bespoke Defence Medical Services (DMS) training package for effectively using REBOA. The article covers how the course was designed, how the key learning objectives are taught, participant feedback and the authors’ perceptions of future training challenges and opportunities. Since the inaugural training course in April 2019, the authors have delivered six courses, training over 100 clinicians. For the first time in the UK DMS, we designed and delivered a robust specialist endovascular training programme, with demonstrable, significant increases in confidence and competence. As a result of this course, the first DMS REBOA-equipped forward surgical teams deployed in June 2019. Looking to the future, there is a requirement to develop an assessment of skill retention and the potential need for revalidation.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
- Clinical use of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) in civilian trauma systems in the USA, 2019: a joint statement from the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the National Association of Emergency Medical Services Physicians and the National Association of Emergency Medical TechniciansTrauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2019
- Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) in the Management of Trauma Patients: A Systematic Literature ReviewThe American Surgeon, 2019
- Pre-hospital Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) for exsanguinating pelvic haemorrhageResuscitation, 2019
- Vascular access training for REBOA placement: a feasibility study in a live tissue-simulator hybrid porcine modelJournal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 2018
- Outcomes following trauma laparotomy for hypotensive trauma patients: A UK military and civilian perspectiveThe Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2018
- Recent advances in austere combat surgery: Use of aortic balloon occlusion as well as blood challenges by special operations medical forces in recent combat operationsThe Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2018
- Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta and Resuscitative Thoracotomy in Select Patients with Hemorrhagic Shock: Early Results from the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma's Aortic Occlusion in Resuscitation for Trauma and Acute Care Surgery RegistryJournal of the American College of Surgeons, 2018
- Military-civilian partnership in device innovationThe Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2017
- Mortality after emergent trauma laparotomyThe Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2017
- Death on the battlefield (2001–2011)The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2012