Mechanical Ventilation in Emergency Care Online Course

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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.