Intermediate Trauma Medical Management in Football

AIM
The FA level 4 Intermediate Trauma Medical Management in Football (ITMMiF) is a two-day intensive course at the intermediate level, aimed at those allied healthcare professionals who are responsible for immediate care and management of footballers both in the competitive and training environment.

The ITMMiF will provide you a learning experience that will allow you to act as the primary care provider in the sports, pre-hospital environment of football.

The course promotes a team-work approach and assume that you will be working alongside other experienced health care professionals and ambulance crews. It also appreciates that in some football settings you will be the only practitioner and therefore emphasises leadership skills, as well as refreshing currently established clinical skills already acquired in daily practice.

ITMMiF has been designed to deal with life and limb threatening injuries on the field of play and the two days will concentrate solely around these areas. The course is accredited with the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)

CONTENT
·  Medico-legal Issues and duty of care in football

·  Emergency action planning for football

·  Primary A-E approach of the injured player

·  Sudden Cardiac Arrest in football

·  Basic Life Support (BLS) with use of Automated External Defibrillators

·  Airway management and oxygen therapy

·  Limb threatening fractures/ dislocations and their emergency management

·  Head injuries and The FA concussion guidelines

·  Spinal injury and management (inclusive of extrication)

·  Medical emergencies in football

Course Description

PRE-COURSE TASK:
Reading ITMMiF Manual (you will be sent the link via sharefile).
MCQ will be sent via email.

ASSESSMENT:
The course consists of both formative and summative assessments, with a minimum recommendation of 8-hours of pre-course preparation and a pre-course assessment to be submitted in advance of attendance. A resit may be allowed on the day, please refer to the course manual for details.