ECM PHP COURSE TOPICS
Emergency Centre Management - PreHospital Practitioner
PREHOSPITAL CPR
Prehospital CPR
Reversible causes
Medication and ROSC care
Paediatric and Neonatal CPR
AIRWAY
Introduction
Managing a non-intubated patient
Intubation
Medication
VENTILATION
Introduction
Settings & Values
Modes of ventilation
Lung protection
SEDATION & ANALGESIA
Procedural sedation
Analgesia
Sedation
Examples
SHOCK
The critically ill
Types of Shock
Managing Shock
Septic Shock
POLYTRAUMA
The severely injured patient
Mechanism of injury
The prehospital approach
HEAD & C-SPINE INJURY
Head injury
Concussion
C-spine injury
BURNS & ELECTRICAL INJURY
Burns
Electrical injury
Lightning injury
ECG & ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES (ACS)
Understanding ECGs
Acute Coronary Syndromes
Approach to chest pain
GLUCOSE ISSUES
Introduction
Hyperglycaemia
Hypoglycaemia
IMPORTANT CONDITIONS
Stroke
Seizures
Epistaxis
Anaphylaxis & Allergy
Asthma & COPD
ORTHOPAEDICS
Upper limb conditions
Lower limb conditions
Splinting & Casting
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
Hyperthermia/Hypothermia
Drowning
Radiation
Altitude sickness
Diving
MENTAL HEALTH
Aggressive/violent patients
Suicidal patients
'Drug seekers'
Grief
TOXICOLOGY
Introduction
Management
Toxidromes
Specific overdoses
LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS
Consent (South Africa)
Living will & DNR (South Africa)
Natural & unnatural death (South Africa)
POPI act (South Africa)
WOUND CARE
Introduction
Wound management
Repair agents
Special circumstances & wounds
BITES & STINGS
Mammalian bites
Rabies
Snake bites
Spider bites & Scorpion stings
SPECIALTY MEDICINE
Ophthalmology
Urology
Dentistry
TRIAGE
Introduction
Mass casualty
South African Triage scale
Handing over a patient