Prehospital Anaesthesia and Transport Medicine (MPH210)

Content

• Physical and physiologic influence of different types of transport modes
• Monitoring during transport
• Safety in transport medicine
• Special transports
• Organisational and economical aspects of transport medicine
• Parmacodynamics and -kinetics of pharmacological substances used to provide prehospital anaesthesia
• Principles of safe anaesthesia practice
• Monitoring during anaesthesia
• Anticipation and management of complications and challenges in prehospital anaesthesia

Learning outcome

A candidate who has completed this course should have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills, and general competence:

Knowledge

The candidate:

• Can critically appraise needs and challenges, indications and contraindications for transport in individual cases of patients that require transport outside the hospital
• Can discuss different transport modes, their influence on the patient and the individual needs for monitoring during transport
• Can evaluate indications and challenges of prehospital anaesthesia and anaesthesia management
• Can assess the effect of relevant anaesthetic agents used in prehospital critical care with emphasis on pharmacological effect, pharmacokinetics and -dynamics, physiological effect in the critically ill in extreme environments

Skills

The candidate:

• Can devise a plan for the transport of a critically ill or injured patient, which takes into consideration hazards and threats to safe conduct of patient transport, and medical, technical, organisational and logistical factors and challenges
• Can demonstrate the ability to work effectively in an inter-professional provider team
• Can demonstrate the ability to plan and safely provide or support the provision of prehospital anaesthesia in critically ill or injured patients outside the hospital, depending on pre-course level of anaesthesia training

General Competence

The candidate:

• Can demonstrate the ability to critically review new knowledge and scientific literature, and discuss its implication on current practice, both on the individual provider- and systemic level
• Can demonstrate the ability to plan and execute safe transport of critically ill or injured patients with allocation of roles and responsibilities for members of the transport team depending on their training and competence
• Can provide safe anaesthesia practice according to national standards and guidelines with emphasis on good patient safety

Required prerequisite knowledge

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Method of work

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