Basic Emergency Care Course

Approach to the acutely ill and injured patient

Introductions
• Your full name
• Where you work
• What you do
• What we should call you
• Your expectations
House Rules
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
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
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
 Suggested Schedule
DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4

08:30 Faculty meeting 08:15 Faculty meeting 08:30 Faculty meeting 08:15 Faculty meeting

08.45 Welcome & introductions 08:30 Review of ABCDE and trauma with 08:45 Ice breaker 08:30 Review of DIB and shock with
quick cards
quick cards
09:20 Ice breaker
08:50 Icebreaker 09:00 Skills 1 09:00 Icebreaker
09:30 Principles of the course
09:00 DIB talk
10:00 Official opening of the course 10:20 TEA 09:20 AMS talk

10:30 TEA
10:20 TEA 11:00 Skills 2 10:30 TEA

10:40 ABCDE talk 11:00 DIB small groups

12:30 LUNCH 11:00 AMS small groups
11:45 ABCDE small group session 12:00 Handover transfer discussion
13:15 Skills 3 12:00 Posttest MCQ
12:45 LUNCH
12:30 LUNCH

13:45 Trauma talk 14:45 TEA 13:00 LUNCH

13:15 Shock talk
10:20 TEA
15:00 Skills 4 14:00 Medication small groups
14:45 TEA
15:30 Secondary survey demo plus GCS
16:30 Skills feedback 14:45 Wrap up and Results
15:00 Shock small group
16:00 Trauma small groups

16:45 Wrap up and closure 15:30 TEA and farewell

16:40 Wrap up and closure 16:30 Wrap up and closure
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
Questions