Aviation for Healthcare Providers (AHCP)
This is a two-day course aimed at providing the advanced life support practitioner with the skills to work with critically ill patients that need to be transported via fixed-wing and rotor-wing and how to carefully move and work with these patients in and out of the air ambulances.
Price: R6490
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Description
Audience
Advanced Life Support (ALS) Practitioners, doctors and Nurses (RNs) who are wanting to work in air ambulances.
Course content:
• Mechanics of flight
• Aircraft legislation
• Physics for aviation
• Physiology and effects of flight
• Preparing and planning for flight
• Ventilation for aviation
• Pharmacology in flight
• Patient Packaging for flight
• Infection control
• Crew management and human factors
• Diagnostics and monitoring
• Special cases (paeds, neonates etc)
Certification
On successful completion of the course, participants will receive a CPD certificate, the CPD points are valid for 2 years.
Student Materials
Pre-course preparation occurs online through the AIEM website and an e-manual is available for the students. There is a pre and post-course test for this course.
CEU: 25 General CEU’s and 1 ethical
Course Duration: 2 Days