ECMS : Introduction tpo Mechanical Ventilation

Latest Course update: October 2018

Please note this online course is open to registrants with the ECMS courses on Paediatric Emergencies run by Dr Nitin Chawla, Hyperabad, India.

Mechanical ventilation is one of the central skills in critical care medicine. In the emergency patient it is most often used to improve oxygenation and ventilation in the patient with acute respiratory failure, severe shock, altered conscious state and to treat acute raised intracranial pressure. Ventilation may be required to treat life-threatening presentations of COAD, heart failure, pneumonia, sepsis, trauma, intracerebral haemorrhage, and overdose. An understanding of the indications, complications, practical aspects of mechanical ventilation and respiratory failure is essential in emergency medicine. 

The course explores the following topics:

1. Ventilation: Airway Management

2. Ventilator Mode and Settings

3. Ventilation: Application to Clinical Practice

4. Setting up an Oxylog ventilator for Mechanical ventilation

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Information about the course

• This course is open to participants undertaking training with Emergency Crisis Management Solutions, ECMS, Hyderabad, India.

• Online CME hours: The online course is certified for 7.5 hours of continuing medical education

• Duration of enrolement: 12 months (commences from the date of course enrolement)

• Certification : A CPD Certificate is provided with successful completion of the course

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