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Basic Emergency Care Course Approach to the acutely ill and injured patient

Basic Emergency Care Course Approach to the acutely ill and injured patient. Introductions. Your full name Where you work What you do What we should call you Your expectations. House Rules. Goals.

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Basic Emergency Care Course Approach to the acutely ill and injured patient

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  1. Basic Emergency Care Course Approach to the acutely ill and injured patient

  2. Introductions • Your full name • Where you work • What you do • What we should call you • Your expectations

  3. House Rules

  4. Goals • Designed for frontline pre-hospital or facility-based health care providers who manage acute life-threatening conditions with limited resources • Designed to provide a systematic initial approach to managing acute, potentially life-threatening conditions even before a diagnosis is known

  5. Aims • To ensure participants use an ABCDE approach to assess the Emergency patient • To ensure participants are able to identify and provide interventions for life-threatening conditions • To ensure participants understand when to call for help and when to refer a patient for higher level care

  6. Resources • Your workbook includes: • Introduction • ABCDE and SAMPLE history approach • Approach to trauma • Approach to difficulty in breathing • Approach to shock • Approach to altered mental status • Skills modules • Quick cards

  7. Suggested Schedule

  8. Requirements • To be awarded a Certificate of Achievement participants must: • Complete the pretest • Attend all sessions each day • Complete the key terms and workbook questions by the end of the four days • Pass ALL skills station assessments • Successfully lead a case scenario • Score greater than 75% on the final written exam

  9. Questions ?

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