Fundamentals of Emergency Care Course (FEC)


The FEC course revises some of the important fundamental topics and principles in Emergency Medicine including ventilation, advanced airway management including RSI, cardiac arrest algorithms and venous access.
Emergency conditions and skills learned during the workshops will be practiced in various patient simulations or scenario-based teaching.
 
Next Course Date(s):      Next Cape Town course  - please contact Samantha below to express interest. 
Course Duration:            2 days – 8am to 5pm  
Logistics Coordinator:   Samantha Samie 
Website:                           http://www.ceuhealth.uct.ac.za/fundamentals-emergency-care
 
If your interest is to hvae a FEC course at your facility or to discuss tailor making a FEC Course for your context, we are very open to discussions - please contact    A/Prof Peter Hodkinson                                              
 
During the 2-day practical course students will be exposed to lectures and practical sessions to refresh knowledge and skills necessary in the management of emergency conditions. These include various workshops including ventilation, advanced airway management and RSI, cardiac arrest algorithms and venous access. Emergency conditions and skills learned during the workshops will be practiced in various patient simulations or scenario-based teaching. Registration generally closes three weeks before the scheduled course takes place, to allow delegates to work through the course manual that is included as part of the course fee. An entry exam is held at the start of the first session on the materials presented in the manual.

NOW accredited by the College of Family Medicine SA as satisfying the exam entry requirement course in Emergency Medicine

Click here for a glimpse at the manual contents 

The course is aimed at doctors, nursing sisters and paramedics involved in providing emergency care to patients.
 
The aim of the course is to improve knowledge and refresh procedures and skills necessary in the management of emergency conditions especially life-threatening conditions. In the course various topics in medical emergencies, trauma and paediatric emergencies will be covered. This include lectures, workshops and scenario-based simulations.

Before the course students will receive a manual to study before the course. Chapters in the manual include:
  • Assessment of critically ill or injured patients
  • Triage
  • Resuscitation
  • Various chapters on the assessment and management of problems related to airway, breathing, circulation and disability
  • Immobilisation
  • Special resuscitation on trauma and paediatrics
  • Management of specific conditions
  • Analgesia and sedation in the Emergency Centre
  • Drugs
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