Anaesthetic Practice, Certificate of Credit, University of Derby Online Learning

the United Kingdom

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The award	How you will study	Study duration	Course start	Domestic course fees	International course fees
Certificate of Credit	Online	20 weeks	September, May	GBP 1850 total	GBP 1850 total

About Anaesthetic Practice, Certificate of Credit - at University of Derby Online Learning

Anaesthetic Practice Certificate of Continuing Professional Development

With a focus on resilience and safety, this 20-week course encourages you, as an Anaesthetic Practitioner working in the perioperative environment (based in the UK, Republic of Ireland or Channel Islands), to build and reflect on your knowledge and experience in relation to anaesthetic practice to enable you to deliver high-quality care across a variety of specialities.

Service users come to theatres with many complex needs. Technology and skills continue to improve, continuously advancing what can be done in terms of both anaesthetic and surgical intervention. The higher degree of complexity though, the higher the level of planning and safety measures are required. Anaesthetic Practitioners will become involved in cases of increasing complexity and must, therefore, ensure that a safe environment is maintained and that they themselves remain resilient and compassionate when providing safe patient care.

Course content

Advanced resuscitation including advanced airway management, anaesthetic complications and emergencies, rapid sequence induction, failed intubation procedure and advanced Life Support in the Perioperative environment
Risk management in the anaesthetic environment including principles of risk management and hazards in the clinical area, human factors and environmental emergencies
Service user monitoring including invasive/haemodynamic monitoring, interpretation of ECGs and doppler
Health and Social Policy including implications of national and local health policy initiatives on perioperative environment
Anaesthetic equipment including ventilators and modes of ventilation, care of ventilated service user and managing a service user with a tracheostomy
Care of service users with specific needs including paediatric anaesthesia, anaesthesia in obstetrics, elderly, anaesthesia for service user with mental health problems or learning disabilities, anaesthetic management of the obese service user
Regional anaesthesia including regional blocks and epidural and spinal anaesthesia
Pain management including routes of pain relief, pharmacological, adjuncts to pain relief and alternative pain management strategies
Complications associated with anaesthesia including common and not-so-common complications associated with general, local and regional anaesthesia
Venepuncture and Intravenous cannulation including relevant legislation, site and equipment selection, anatomy & physiology, potential complications and errors, infection control, the venepuncture procedure, the cannulation procedure, vascular and arterial access
Responding to emergencies including assisting the anaesthetist, scope of practice, situational awareness, managing the environment and managing specific emergencies such as anaphylaxis, major haemorrhage, suxamethonium apnoea and malignant hyperpyrexia

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