Mechanical Ventilation in Emergency Medicine 24
Ventilation in Emergency Care
Mechanical ventilation: Basic principles, Ventilator modes/settings, Oxylog & Hamilton Ventilators
Please note there is a new version of the course.
The course is an accredited learning activity for 6 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 : 29166: 3.5 Educational Activity and 2.5 Reviewing Performance Hours) and RACGP (Course Code : 417705: 3.5 Educational Activity and 2.5 Reviewing Performance Hours).
Latest Course update: January 2024
This course is suitable for Medical Officers, Nurses, Paramedics and Students
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, 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 the Draeger Oxylog 3000 and Hamilton T1 Ventilators for Mechanical ventilation
Nb In this course you are able to select to learn about either the Draeger Oxylog 3000 or the Hamilton T1 (or both if you are really keen) to allow for you to align the learning to the ventilator you use in you clinical practice.