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RMO Training Module

This document outlines the curriculum for a Basic Emergency Training Program focused on acute care skills. The program covers 25 topics including triage, breathing and ventilation management, circulatory support, diagnostic procedures, approaches to common emergency presentations like chest pain and altered mental status, trauma management, sepsis guidelines, and orthopedic emergencies. Skills taught include airway management, vascular access, splinting fractures, and interpretation of diagnostic tests. The goal is to train medical professionals in stabilizing and treating critically ill emergency patients.

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RMO Training Module

This document outlines the curriculum for a Basic Emergency Training Program focused on acute care skills. The program covers 25 topics including triage, breathing and ventilation management, circulatory support, diagnostic procedures, approaches to common emergency presentations like chest pain and altered mental status, trauma management, sepsis guidelines, and orthopedic emergencies. Skills taught include airway management, vascular access, splinting fractures, and interpretation of diagnostic tests. The goal is to train medical professionals in stabilizing and treating critically ill emergency patients.

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HARRISON

MILLER ACUTE CARE SERVICES

Basic Emergency Training Program - Short duration

1. Triage - Basics of colour coding


2. BLS, ACLS
3. BREATHING AND VENTILATION MANAGEMENT SKILLS
• Assessment of breathing and ventilation
• Oxygen therapy
• Interpretation of blood gas analysis, pulse oximetry and capnography
• Bag-mask-valve ventilation
• Thoracocentesis
• Non-invasive ventilation techniques
• Invasive ventilation techniques
4. ABCDE approach to assess a critically ill patient
5. Pain Management in ED -
• Use of appropriate local, topical and regional anaesthesia techniques
• Pharmacology of analgesic drugs - NSAIDS, Opioids
6. CIRCULATORY SUPPORT AND CARDIAC SKILLS AND PROCEDURES -
• Administration of fluids including blood and substitutes
• Monitoring of ECG and the circulation
• Defibrillation and pacing (e.g. cardioversion, transcutaneous pacing)
• Vascular access (peripheral venous, arterial, and central venous
catheterisation)
7. DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES AND SKILLS -
• Interpretation of ECG
• Appropriate request and interpretation of laboratory investigations (blood
chemistry, blood gases, respiratory function testing and biological markers)
• Appropriate request and interpretation of imaging (e.g. x-rays, ultrasound,
CT/MRI)
• e-FAST
• Nasogastric tube insertion
• Urinary catheterisation
8. Approach to -
• Acute abdominal pain
• Chest Pain
• Arrhythmias
• Dyspnoea
• Altered level of consciousness
• Syncope/Pre-syncope
• Crying baby, Febrile seizures
• Foreign body - ENT, Airway
• Status Epilepticus
9. Trauma -
• Blunt abdomen
• Penetrating injuries
• RTA/ High -velocity
• Falls
10. Burns
11. Sepsis - Surviving sepsis guidelines, qSOFA
12. Anaphylaxis
13. ACS - UA/STEMI/NSTEMI
14. STROKE, Intracranial haemorrhage
15. DKA, Acid base abnormalities
16. Electrolyte abnormalities - Hypokalemia/Hyperkalemia/Hypocalcemia
17. Upper and lower GI bleeding
18. Orthopedic Emergencies -

• Aseptic joint aspiration


• Fracture immobilisation
• Reduction of joint dislocation
• Log roll and spine immobilisation
• Splinting (plasters, braces, slings, tapes and other bandages)
• Management of compartment syndrome
• Fasciotomy, escharotomy

19. Snake bite


20. Drowning
21. Electrocution
22. Hanging
23. Drug overdose
24. Poisoning
25. Empirical antibiotic policy for common infections
26. Medico-legal documentation

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