Emergency Care Courses
Acute Red Eye
This micro skills course provided by the College of Paramedics hopes to familiarise the learner with the common presentations of Red Eye and provide the necessary knowledge to formulate a differential diagnosis and provide a safe and suitable management plan.
Adult Rashes
The aim of this micro skills course provided by the College of Paramedics is to provide an approach to the description and assessment of a rash in an adult.
Advance Care Planning
This micro skills course from the College of Paramedics aims to develop an understanding of the procedural, legal and ethical aspects of advance care planning at the end of life (EoL), as applied to paramedic practice.
Ankle Injuries
An effective advanced assessment of an ankle injury will allow a paramedic or clinician to determine a management plan that leads to the most appropriate and helpful management. This micro skills course from the College of Paramedics aims to provide the underlying theory and assessment techniques to carry out these assessments effectively.
Ante-partum Haemorrhage
The aim of this micro skills course provided by the College of Paramedics is to provide an understanding of the clinician's role in dealing with the bleeding, pregnant patient who is more than 24 weeks into pregnancy.
Applying Safeguarding in Practice
This micro skills lesson from the College of Paramedics will investigate the role of paramedics in safeguarding children and young people.
Later, it will identify some common patterns of non-accidental injury and offer guidance on how to determine if a child or young person represents a safeguarding concern.
Assessment and Management of Burns
Following a review of skin anatomy and burn pathophysiology, this micro skills course from the College of Paramedics will demonstrate how to make an assessment of burn depth and percentage total body surface area (% TBSA). In addition to discussing the pre-hospital treatment and management for minor burns patients, some of the more common specialist treatment options will be outlined, in order that the ambulance clinician develops a sound knowledge base from which to inform their decision making.
Asthma
This micro skills course provided by the College of Paramedics aims to enable paramedics to understand the relevant pathophysiology of asthma, along with varying treatment options when presented with differing clinical cases.
Back Pain
This micro skills course provided by the College of Paramedics aims to provide a simplified approach to the assessment and management of an adult patient presenting with non-traumatic back pain in the emergency and urgent care setting. It assumes some prior knowledge of the common causes of back pain and the use of basic assessment equipment and further assumes that the reader will be in clinical practice.
Best Practice in Acute and Chronic Pain Management
This micro skills course from the College of Paramedics will describe the evidence base for paramedic pain management, including when it is appropriate for paramedics to administer analgesics. Later, it will investigate the guidelines that inform paramedic pain management and the role of splinting as a way for paramedics to relieve pain.
Birth
The aim of this micro skills course from the College of Paramedics is to provide an understanding of the clinicians role in assisting with uncomplicated childbirth.
Breech Birth
The aim of this micro skills course from the College of Paramedics is to gain confidence in dealing with the Pre-hospital care of birthing women when the baby is in the breech presentation.

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