Aeromedical Evacuation and Transport
This course provides a practical approach to patient care in the aeromedical environment. The course is concerned primarily with the transport of patients via a properly managed aeromedical system. It provides students with an overview of the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to ensure successful and safe patient management in the aeromedical environment.
Course Duration: 5 Days – 8am to 4pm (40 hrs)
Course Venue: Cape Town
Clinical Director(s): Wayne Smith
Logistics Coordinator: Samantha Samie
Website for details and booking: http://www.ceuhealth.uct.ac.za/aeromedical-evacuation-and-transport
The course is concerned primarily with the transport of patients via a properly managed aeromedical system. It provides students with an overview of the knowledge, skills and attitudes required so as to ensure successful and safe patient management in the aeromedical environment.
Experience level of attendees – the course is pitched at doctors as well as paramedics and nursing staff who will be part of an aeromedical evacuation team and should be at least ALS qualified.
South Africa has an exciting an ever developing Aeromedical system. Students completing this course will be well placed to provide quality patient care in this challenging environment.
* please note - our course includes full HUET (Helicopter Underwater Escape Training) training provided by CPUT Survival Centre and you will be issued with a certificate of completion by CPUT for this. However if you want a formal, internationally recognised HUET certificate for the training completed, this certificate will cost you an additional +/- R2200 (this is 2021 price).
Course Duration: 5 Days – 8am to 4pm (40 hrs)
Course Venue: Cape Town
Clinical Director(s): Wayne Smith
Logistics Coordinator: Samantha Samie
Website for details and booking: http://www.ceuhealth.uct.ac.za/aeromedical-evacuation-and-transport
The course is concerned primarily with the transport of patients via a properly managed aeromedical system. It provides students with an overview of the knowledge, skills and attitudes required so as to ensure successful and safe patient management in the aeromedical environment.
Experience level of attendees – the course is pitched at doctors as well as paramedics and nursing staff who will be part of an aeromedical evacuation team and should be at least ALS qualified.
South Africa has an exciting an ever developing Aeromedical system. Students completing this course will be well placed to provide quality patient care in this challenging environment.
- History of Aeromedicine
- Aeromedical Platforms
- Physics of Flight
- Atmospherology and Meteorology
- Crew resource Management
- Stressors of Flight
- Gas Laws and Altitude Physiology
- Pre flight patient care and management
- In flight patient care
- Aeromedical specific Legislation and documentation
- Practical exposure to flight and various aeromedical platforms
* please note - our course includes full HUET (Helicopter Underwater Escape Training) training provided by CPUT Survival Centre and you will be issued with a certificate of completion by CPUT for this. However if you want a formal, internationally recognised HUET certificate for the training completed, this certificate will cost you an additional +/- R2200 (this is 2021 price).
We are grateful to our partner organizations in running this course:
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CPUT Survival Centre is a member of the International Association for Safety and Survival Training (IASST) and have been involved in HUET Training for the EMCT Aeromedical Course for the last ten years.
https://www.cput.ac.za/academic/shortcourses/courses/1-2-day-huet |
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Established in 1966 by the SA Red Cross Society and formed into an independent trust in 1994, the AMS shares the principles and creed of the South African Red Cross Society. The AMS is a non-profit organisation with bases in the Western Cape (Cape Town & Oudtshoorn ), KwaZulu-Natal (Durban & Richards Bay) and Limpopo (Polokwane) that provides an air ambulance network, rural health outreach and emergency rescue service to metropolitan areas and remote rural communities.
https://www.ams.org.za/about-us |
