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C19_SPACE stands for the Skills PrepAration CoursE. It is available for every doctor and nurse working in a hospital with an Intensive Care Unit. Self-paced learning including 8 modules, 2D virtual reality, and 4 video clinical cases - topics including “Personal Safety, Donning and Doffing of PPE” to “Basic of Respiratory Support and Haemodynamic Monitoring”. By the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
First published in 2020, this toolkit is intended for clinicians working in acute care, managing adult and paediatric patients with acute respiratory infection, including severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis and septic shock. The main objective is to provide key tools for use in the care of critically ill patients – from hospital entry to hospital discharge.
The 2022 updated version includes new tools and adapted algorithms, checklists, memory aids for COVID-19 and influenza, and the latest clinical evidence regarding clinical management of SARI. It is intended to help clinicians care for SARI patients: from epidemiology of severe acute respiratory infections, screening and triage, infection prevention and control, monitoring of patients, laboratory diagnosis, principles of oxygen therapy and different types of ventilation (invasive and non-invasive), as well as antimicrobial and immunomodulator therapies, to ethical and quality of care assessments.
“Integrated Triage for Ambulatory Settings in the Context of COVID-19” is a novel decision support tool designed to safely and effectively direct all patients who present to the clinical setting to appropriate care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This tool presents an algorithm that integrates screening, physical triage and cohorting, and infection prevention and control (IPC) with clinical triage principles to prioritize patients based on acuity. Spanish, French, Arabic and Russian coming soon.
Online courses and videos from OpenAnesthesia teach point of care ultrasound (POCUS) for basic and advanced Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) and Lung Ultrasound. Videos on TTE are divided into basic and advanced. The advanced TTE section introduces you to quantitative assessments of cardiovascular function.
Online courses and videos from OpenAnesthesia teach point of care ultrasound (POCUS) for basic and advanced Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) and Lung Ultrasound. Videos on TTE are divided into basic and advanced. The basic TTE section covers the fundamentals of ultrasound physics, image acquisition for the standard transthoracic views, and qualitative evaluation of cardiac function.
By the end of this course, participants should be able to:
· explain the COVID-19 care pathway, including screening, isolation, acuity-based triage and patient release from the pathway;
· describe the integrated interagency routine facility triage tool and its application to adult and pediatric triage;
· describe key elements in designating a resuscitation area in an emergency unit;
· use the WHO medical emergency checklist in the management of a seriously ill patient;
· relate the components of the ABCDE systematic approach to the acutely ill patient;
· list the components of the SAMPLE history;
· explain the structure, organization and application of the ABCDE systematic approach for the acutely ill patient;
· identify key causes, signs and symptoms and management for: acute airway obstruction, difficulty in breathing, poor perfusion and shock and altered mental status; and
· discuss special considerations and management differences for the acutely ill paediatric patient presenting with: acute airway obstruction, difficulty in breathing, poor perfusion and altered mental status.
Experts from the USAID STAR-UCSF COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group present a webinar on infection prevention and control.
The information and resources presented here do not constitute medical consultation. This content is intended to be educational in nature and is not a substitute for clinical decision making based on the medical condition presented by individual patients. It is the responsibility of the user to ensure all information contained herein is current and accurate by using published references. Data on the topic of COVID-19 respiratory care is rapidly evolving. Manufacturers’ documentation must be referenced prior to the use of any equipment. The views expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of any institutions.
Sustaining Technical and Analytic Resources (STAR) is a project of the Public Health Institute Implemented in partnership with Johns Hopkins University and University of California San Francisco.
The webinar is available in English, French and Spanish.
Severe acute respiratory infections treatment centre: practical manual to set up and manage a SARI treatment centre and a SARI screening facility in health care facilities.