# Aviation for Healthcare Providers (AHCP)

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**Category:** Short Courses\
**Tags:** acute-care, aiem, clinical, courses\
**Created:** [February 14, 2024, 7:57am UTC](https://hub.sadocs.co.za/t/aviation-for-healthcare-providers-ahcp/273 "2024-02-14T07:57:23Z")\
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## 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:** R7000

## ➡ [_Book Now_](https://aiem.co.za/courses/aviation-for-healthcare-providers/?ref=1951)

### 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

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