School of Medicine
Anaesthesiology - MBChBIII - Emergency Care course
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All medical students have the potential to encounter a client who requires emergency care. In semesters one and two, third year MBChB students from The University of Auckland medical students are trained in the elementary skills of emergency care. The skills and knowledge gained on this course will lay the foundation for further study conducted during the years four to six.
Course programme
The Emergency Care course is a skill-based course designed to prepare medical students with the necessary skills to recognise potentially life threatening problems and to provide basic resuscitation. These skills are developed further in various specialties such as emergency medicine, anaesthesiology and surgery in years four to six. The Emergency Care course is a pre-requisite to attend the Advanced Life Support course delivered in year six.
These courses are held at the Simulation Centre for Patient Safety, Basement, Building 502, Grafton Campus, 85 Park Road, Grafton.
Skills
The course covers elementary assessment and intervention skills within the context of an emergency situation. The skill teaching stations will develop basic resuscitation skills.
The skills taught on this course include:
Module One
1. Basic Life Support
- Emergency care systems
- Adult single and two operator CPR
- Paediatric single and two operator CPR
- Automated external defibrillator (AED) use
- Management of foreign body airway obstruction
- Putting patients in recovery position
2. Airway Management
- Airway opening manoeuvres
- Suction
- Oropharyngeal airway insertion
- Nasopharyngeal airway insertion
- Use of bag-valve-mask device
- Oxygen delivery devices
Module Two
1. Advanced Resuscitation
- Case simulations
o Adult/Child collapse
o Anaphylaxis
o Acute coronary syndrome
Module Three
2. Intravenous (IV) cannulation & Phlebotomy workshop
- Cannulation skills and IV equipment
- Venepuncture and blood collection equipment and skill
- Supervised practice of cannulation and phlebotomy for students
