Type of Course

  • Comprehensive Course

Faculty Type

  • Clinically experienced Doctors and Nurses with a large teaching expertise

Duration

  • 15-18 Hours

Terminal Objective

  • To understand and clinically manage patients infected with COVID -19

Learning Outcomes

  • To understand, implement and evaluate IPC practices related to COVID-19
  • Understand the management of Mechanical Ventilation for its effective implementation
  • To manage ARDS and Pneumonia patients with specific protocols
  • Understand the process of Triage based on the categorisation of signs /symptoms and accordingly prioritize patient care
  • Recognise and handle an unresponsive patient, under cardiac arrest, with modified guidelines

Key Topics

  • Introduction / Overview - COVID-19 Management
  • Epidemiology of COVID
  • IPC - Standard Precautions ; Transmission Based Precautions; PPE
  • Isolation
  • Quarantine
  • Biomedical Waste Management
  • Triage
  • Approach to the patient - Physical examination
  • Pneumonia
  • BLS
  • Arrhythmias
  • Lab Diagnostics
  • Ventilator Management
  • Dietary Aspects- COVID 19
  • Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
  • Advanced Airway Management
  • Monitoring
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Deep Vein Thrombosis
  • Management of Dead Bodies