PC 7: SafeER PSA - Procedural sedation and analgesia for Emergency Physicians

Course Director

  • Christian Heringhaus (The Netherlands)

Faculty

  • Yannick Groutars (The Netherlands)
  • Erick Oskam (The Netherlands)
  • Douwe Rijpsma (The Netherlands)
  • Ruth Sneep (The Netherlands)
  • Vanessa Valk (The Netherlands)
  • Rebekka Veugelers (The Netherlands)

Participants

The course is designed for 16 participants (Emergency Physicians).
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 over 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.

Schedule

08.00 – 08.30 Welcome and introduction
08.30 – 09.00 Lecture: SafeER PSA -  The course
09.00 – 09.15 Lecture: PSA a continuum
09.15 – 09.50 Lecture: PSA – a routine procedure?
09.50 – 10.05 Lecture: Risk assessment and pre-sedation screening
10.05 – 10.20 Lecture: Airway
10.20 – 10.30 Lecture: Patient characteristics and positioning
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.20 Lecture: Monitoring
11.20 – 12.30 Lecture: Pharmacology
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 13.50 Table Top exercise
13.50 – 14.00 Demonstration
14.00 – 15.30 Sedation workshops
15.30 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 17.30 Sedation workshops
17.30 – 18.00 Quiz

 

Precourse Sedation & Analgesia

National Societies

Albania
Albania Albania

Albanian Society of Emergency Medicine

Shoqata Shqiptare e Urgjencës Mjekësore - SH.U.M.

Date of origin: 1 January 2013

Austria

Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina

Association of Emergency Medicine Physicians of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Udruženje Urgentologa u Federaciji Bosne i Hercegovine

Date of origin: 15 March 2019





France
Georgia
Georgia Georgia

Georgian College of Emergency Physicians

საქართველოს გადაუდებელი მედიცინის ექიმთა კოლეჯი





Kosovo
Kosovo Kosovo

Kosovo Society of Emergency Medicine

Shoqata për Mjekësi Emergjente e Kosovës (SHMEK)  

Year of origin: 2008

Latvia

Lithuania
Lithuania Lithuania

Lithuanian Society for Emergency Medicine

Lietuvos Skubiosios Medicinos Draugija

Date of origin: 3 October 2003

Malta
Malta Malta

Association of Emergency Physicians of Malta

Ghaqda Maltija tat-Tobba ghall-Emergenzi

Date of origin: 1 December 2006


Moldova
Moldova Moldova

Society of Emergency Medicine and Disasters Medicine from Republic of Moldova

Asociația Obștească Societatea Științifico-Practică de Medicină de Urgență și Catastrofe din Republica Moldova

Netherlands

Norway
Norway Norway

Norwegian College of Emergency Medicine


Poland

Portugal
Portugal Portugal

Portuguese Society of Urgent and Emergency Medicine

Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina de Urgência e Emergência 

Romania

Serbia
Slovakia
Slovakia Slovakia

Slovak Society of Disaster and Emergency Medicine

Slovenská spoločnost' urgentnej medicíny katastrof 

Date of origin: 4 October 1997





United Kingdom
United Kingdom United Kingdom

Royal College of Emergency Medicine

Year of origin: 1993