Trauma Evaluation and Management Course
Trauma Evaluation and Management (TEAM™) – A management Primer for Multidisciplinary Trauma TEAM Members
The TEAM course offered by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT) is an introductory course for medical providers with limited experience or knowledge that focuses on the initial management of trauma patients.
- The fundamental principles of trauma care included in this course
- Rapid, accurate and physiologic assessment of a patient’s condition.
- Resuscitation, stabilization, and monitoring of a patient (according to priority)
- Preparation for a patients’ interhospital transfer (if a patient’s needs exceed the treating facility’s capabilities
- Introduction to injury prevention strategies.
For additional information and questions contact: Rebecca Scarbrough at rscarbrough@health.southalabama.edu.