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1. Basic Emergency Care Course
Approach to the acutely ill and injured patient

2. Introductions
• Your full name
• Where you work
• What you do
• What we should call you
• Your expectations

3. House Rules

4. Goals
• Designed for frontline pre-hospital or facility-based health care
providers who manage acute life-threatening conditions with limited
resources
• Designed to provide a systematic initial approach to managing acute,
potentially life-threatening conditions even before a diagnosis is
known

5. Aims
• To ensure participants use an ABCDE approach to assess the
Emergency patient
• To ensure participants are able to identify and provide interventions
for life-threatening conditions
• To ensure participants understand when to call for help and when to
refer a patient for higher level care

6. Resources
• Your workbook includes:
• Introduction
• ABCDE and SAMPLE history approach
• Approach to trauma
• Approach to difficulty in breathing
• Approach to shock
• Approach to altered mental status
• Skills modules
• Quick cards

7. Suggested Schedule
DAY 1
08:30 Faculty meeting
08.45 Welcome & introductions
09:20 Ice breaker
09:30 Principles of the course
10:00 Official opening of the course
10:20 TEA
10:40 ABCDE talk
11:45 ABCDE small group session
12:45 LUNCH
13:45 Trauma talk
10:20 TEA
15:30 Secondary survey demo plus GCS
16:00 Trauma small groups
16:40 Wrap up and closure
DAY 2
08:15 Faculty meeting
08:30 Review of ABCDE and trauma with
quick cards
08:50 Icebreaker
09:00 DIB talk
10:30 TEA
11:00 DIB small groups
12:00 Handover transfer discussion
12:30 LUNCH
13:15 Shock talk
14:45 TEA
15:00 Shock small group
16:30 Wrap up and closure
DAY 3
08:30 Faculty meeting
08:45 Ice breaker
09:00 Skills 1
10:20 TEA
11:00 Skills 2
12:30 LUNCH
13:15 Skills 3
14:45 TEA
15:00 Skills 4
16:30 Skills feedback
16:45 Wrap up and closure
DAY 4
08:15 Faculty meeting
08:30 Review of DIB and shock with
quick cards
09:00 Icebreaker
09:20 AMS talk
10:30 TEA
11:00 AMS small groups
12:00 Posttest MCQ
13:00 LUNCH
14:00 Medication small groups
14:45 Wrap up and Results
15:30 TEA and farewell

8. Requirements
• To be awarded a Certificate of Achievement participants must:
• Complete the pretest
• Attend all sessions each day
• Complete the key terms and workbook questions by the end of the four days
• Pass ALL skills station assessments
• Successfully lead a case scenario
• Score greater than 75% on the final written exam

9. Questions