Paediatric Emergencies in Primary Care

Red Flags for serious illness, Respiratory distress, Sick Neonate, Acute asthma, Drowning

Please note there is a new version of the course.

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This course is an accredited learning activity for 8 hours for medical and nursing continuing professional development.

For GPs the course is an accredited CPD activity for the 2023-2025 triennium with ACRRM (Course Code: 28771: 5.5 Educational Activity and 2.5 Reviewing Performance Hours) and RACGP (Course Code : 396926: 5.5 Educational Activity and 2.5 Reviewing Performance Hours).

Latest Course update : January 2024

Designed for medical officers, nurses, paramedics and students in all medical fields.

It is easy to miss the seriously ill child who presents with subtle clinical findings or feel uncomfortable when required to manage the seriously ill child.

In this course we examine a range of common emergency presentations and discuss clinical history and examination, red flags for serious illness and clinical management of the seriously ill child. A CPD Certificate is provided with successful completion of the course for 8 CPD hours

The course will specifically review :

• 1. Red Flags for Serious illness in a child / Vomiting and Dehydration

• 2. Approach to Respiratory distress in the young child

• 3. Assessment of the Sick Neonate

• 4. Acute Asthma : Red Flags for severe asthma / Acute management

• 5. The Child with Cardiac arrest secondary to Drowning