Urgent Medical Care

The value of such care models has been widely recognised by both patients and health systems as a positive move. Care closer to home is a clear strategy to reduce costly secondary care and more importantly allows capacity in the secondary care system to effectively treat those that need specialist care. However, urgent care should never disadvantage the patient for not attending secondary care in the first place, it should if anything enhance the care the patient receives.

This course is an interactive course offering both lectures and scenario learning. It has been designed to give you an insight and firm grounding in the area of urgent medical care; to deliver to very best care to your patients by understanding their needs and the latest treatment options. The course uses a range of teaching techniques, from lectures to seminar case-based discussions, to prepare the candidate for the urgent care setting.

The teaching team come from wide and varied backgrounds from the military to the NHS, they include paramedics, nurses and doctors.

The make-up of the teaching team reflects the course which is open to a multidisciplinary candidate base and as such there is no lead profession. Students can share their skills with other team members, with important leadership skills being gained by all.

Learning outcomes and aims

The programme will provide a toolkit for the healthcare professional providing urgent care to enhance forward care by starting pathways for the emergency patient.

Subjects Covered in course and pre-reading:

Urgent Care overview:

• Basic Anatomy for Urgent Care
• Basic Physiology for Urgent Care
• BLS /ILS Basics

Sepsis:

• Sepsis scenarios
• No near patient testing
• With near patient testing

Chest pain lecture including ECG basics:

• Chest pain scenarios including ILS resuscitation demo

Diabetes:

• Diabetic Scenarios
• Acute exacerbation
• Chronic poor control

Respiratory:

• Breathing scenarios
• Asthma
• Pneumonia
• COPD
• Hyperventilation

Walking wounded, “I didn’t expect this to walk in”:

Wound management including

• Stabbing / Penetrating injury
• Catastrophic haemorrhage
• Simple Fractures
• Tetanus

Paediatrics, “Spotting the sick child”:

• The history and examination of the child
• Meningitis
• Sepsis – Blue child

ENT:

• ENT examination
• “How did you get that in there?”
• “When is ENT an emergency”
• Foreign Body
• Airway compromise
• Antibiotic guidelines for ears and throat

Ophthalmics:

• Eye examination
• Red eye
• Foreign body
• Infections around the eye

Remote consulting technology:

• Scenarios
• Video consulting

Major incidents

Palliative Care