Emergency medicine (A&E) trainees are required to perform a range of practical procedures every day. With a move from 6 months to 4 month attachments after MMC, it is more important than ever that doctors are quickly and appropriately trained to perform the common procedures practiced in A&E.
This one- day course is essential for trainees about to undertake their first attachment in A&E. Numbers of candidates on this course are strictly limited to allow maximum hands- on time and individual attention.
Candidates rotate around 7 stations over the course of the day, and will learn over 15 procedures procedures including:
This one- day course is essential for trainees about to undertake their first attachment in A&E. Numbers of candidates on this course are strictly limited to allow maximum hands- on time and individual attention.
Candidates rotate around 7 stations over the course of the day, and will learn over 15 procedures procedures including:
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Use of a slit lamp
Chest drains
Thoracocentesis
Treatment of a tension pneumothorax
US guided central lines
Arterial lines and arterial blood gas sampling
Fracture reduction
Plastering
Local anaesthesia
Suturing
Dislocation reduction
Treatment of epistaxis
FAST Scanning
Needle cricothyroidotomy
Intraosseous access
Safe defibrillation