PC 4: SafeER PSA - Procedural sedation and analgesia for Emergency Physicians

Course Director

Christian Heringhaus (The Netherlands)

Faculty

1. Vanessa Valk (The Netherlands)
2. Ruth Sneep (United Kingdom)
3. Lieke van de Voort (The Netherlands)
4. Roy Welsing (The Netherlands)
5. Meys Cohen (The Netherlands)
6. Zohra Ebrahimi (The Netherlands)
7. Harald Hennig (Germany)
8. Erik Oskam (The Netherlands)

Participants

The course is designed for 16 participants (Emergency Physicians).
Target group: Emergency Physicians and residents. Doctors who will follow the pre-course must be adequately trained in advanced life support and airway management skills.

Course description & learning objectives

Procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) is widely administered by emergency physicians, in order to perform painful or uncomfortable procedures in the Accident and Emergency department.
PSA is significant associated with complications and must be seen as a high-risk procedure. Due to the inherent risks, it is important that doctors are aware of and follow available national, international and local guidelines.
Furthermore it is crucial that adequate training should be followed to ensure the knowledge and skills to safely administer PSA and to treat possible complications.
With this course, we will give the participants an overview of existing national and international guidelines, show them how to prepare the patient and the environment to perform safe PSA on the Accident and Emergency department and how to avoid and treat the most common complications related to PSA.
After an introduction with some short presentations, we will mainly train with simulated patients in hands-on workshops.

Educational Material

Pocket cards with relevant information for PSA preparation and treatment of complications.

After the course participants will get a list of relevant literature.

Schedule Wednesday 27 October 

07.30 – 08.00	Registration			30 min.
08.00 – 08.30	Welcome and introduction			30 min.
08.30 – 09.00	Lecture: SafeER PSA -  The course			30 min.
09.00 – 09.15	Lecture: PSA a continuum			15 min.
09.15 – 09.50	Lecture: PSA – a routine procedure?			35 min.
09.50 – 10.05	Lecture: Risk assessment and pre-sedation screening			15 min.
10.05 – 10.20	Lecture: Airway			15 min.
10.20 – 10.30	Lecture: Patient characteristics and positioning			10 min.
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee Break			30 min.
11.00 – 11.20	Lecture: Monitoring			45 min.
11.20 – 12.30	Lecture: Pharmacology			60 min.
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch			60 min.
13.30 – 13.50	Table Top exercise			20 min.
13.50 – 14.00	Demonstration			10 min.
14.00-15.30	Sedation workshops			90 min.
	Area 1	Area 2	Area 3	Area 4
14.00 – 14.25	Blue	Orange	Yellow	Green
14.25 – 14.40	Green	Blue	Orange	Yellow
14.40 – 15.05	Yellow	Green	Blue	Orange
15.05 – 15.30	Orange	Yellow	Green	Blue
15.30 – 16.00	Break			30 min.
16.00-17.30	Sedation workshops			90 min.
Where?	Area 1	Area 2	Area 3	Area 4
16.00 – 16.25	Blue	Orange	Yellow	Green
16.25 – 16.40	Green	Blue	Orange	Yellow
16.40 – 17.05	Yellow	Green	Blue	Orange
17.05 – 17.30	Orange	Yellow	Green	Blue
17.30 – 18.00	Quiz			30  min.