Critical Care, Aviation & ECMO Transport

COURSE INFORMATION

Requirement for Entry: Registered Healthcare Professional – HPCSA or SANC Include: Critical Care Transport Textbook & Link to other study material

Accredited for 21 CEU Points through SAMA

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will take place full time over 4 full days. Critical Care Transport thoroughly prepares medical professionals to function as competent members of a critical care team by covering the material that everyone— paramedics, nurses, physicians, and specialty crew—needs to know to operate effectively in the critical care environment.

This book meets the curricula of major critical care training programs, including University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). It covers both ground and flight transport and meets the objectives of critical care transport certification exams such as the Certified Flight Paramedic (FP-C) exam administered by the Board for Critical Care Transport Paramedic Certification.

Content includes information specific to pre-hospital critical care transport, such as flight physiology, lab analysis, hemodynamic monitoring, and specialized devices such as the intra-aortic balloon pump and specialized ECMO transportation.

 

Standard topics such as airway management, trauma, and pharmacology are covered in the context of critical care. Chapters have been authored by leading critical care professionals across the country and represent the most current, state-of-the-art information on management of critical care patients.

 

This dynamic textbook includes the following features to enhance learning:

  • Skills, covering equipment, indications, contraindications, steps, and complications
  • A synopsis of signs-and symptoms, differential diagnosis, and management points for each condition discussed
  • Explanations of controversies
  • Management algorithms
  • An in-depth case study in each chapter
  • ECMO Transport and troubleshooting (Additional notes)
  • Ventilation
  • Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring
  • Special ICU medications during transport
  • Management algorithms
  • An in-depth case study in each chapter

 

 

 

Meet and Greet

  
 

Introduction to Critical Care Transport

  
 

Introduction/Indications to Flight

Medicine & effects on normal Physiology

  
 

Basic Aerodynamics

  
 

Tea

 
 

Aeromedical Service Structure in SA HEMS vs Fixed Wing

  
 

Weather and Air Law

  
 

Physiological and stress factors on Aviation Medical Providers

  
 

Lunch

  
 

  Preparation / Mission Planning for  Aeromedical transport

  
 

 Introduction to ground transport

  
 

Advanced Airway management and Transport Considerations

  
 

Tea

 
 

Oxygenation and Mechanical Ventilation

  
 

Comfort Break

  
 

Ventilation Practical Stations and Case Scenarios

  

 

 

 

Hemodynamic Monitoring & monitoring during transport

  
 

Practical Station Hemodynamic Monitoring / Pressure lines exe

  
 

Tea

  
 

Pharmacological Considerations during transport

  
 

Lunch

 
 

Practical Station – Infusion Devices

  
 

Other Lines and Tubes

  
 

Blood gasses, Laboratory Testing and Transport

  
 

Ultrasound and Transportation

  
 

Practical Case Scenario

  

 

 

Introduction to Balloon Pump & Transportation thereof

  
 

Introduction to ECMO

  
 

Tea

  
 

Set-up of ECMO Machine Theory

  
 

 Meet the Machine

  
 

Roles and Responsibilities in ECMO transport

  
 

Lunch

  
 

Complication and the Management of ECMO

  
 

ECMO Transport Complication Drills

  
 

Practical Transport Drill

  

 

Entry Requirements: Registration with the HPCSA or SANC as an advanced life support provider (ILS would be considdered on merit)

Course Duration: 4 Day

Course Accreditation: CPD Accredited and Endorsed

 

Course Properties

Course Date 10-05-2021 9:00 am
Course End Date 14-05-2021 5:00 pm
Registration Start Date 12-11-2019
Capacity 12
Registered 0
Available place 12
Cut off date 01-05-2021
Individual Price R 6000 p/p
Location Cintocare Hospital