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As a Rural GP Anaesthetist your services enable rural patients to access treatment and surgery close to where they live and to be supported. To provide this option for your community you face specific credentialing and accreditation requirements. RESP Anaesthetics is customised to meet the demands you face in everyday practice. It enables you as a rural GP Anaesthetist to maintain your skills and knowledge in anaesthesia meeting College credentialing and Joint Consultative Committee on Anaesthesia requirements.
Emergency Anaesthesia Airway in the at-risk Patient
Mechanical Ventilation / Non-invasive Ventilation
Postoperative Procedural Sedation / Analgesia
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of the program you will be able to:
Describe the common clinical features of perioperative anaphylaxis and describe immediate and post crisis management of perioperative anaphylaxis
Summarise the criteria, communication strategies, steps in management and procedural skills for the management of a CICO scenario
Demonstrate competency in procedures for Basic Life Support and Advanced Life Support
Determine the clinical features, risks and management strategies for obtaining a definitive airway in the at-risk patient (obese, hypotensive, hypoxic, acidotic)
Describe the assessment, contraindications, procedure, selection of drugs and post sedation management for procedural sedation in the emergency patient.