Course Director
- Christian Heringhaus (The Netherlands)
Faculty
- Linda Bel (The Netherlands)
- Yannick Groutars (The Netherlands)
- Harald Hennig (Germany)
- Ruth Sneep (UK)
- Rebekka Veugelers (The Netherlands)
- Egon Zwets (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
Patients in the emergency department often need to undergo painful, distressing, or unpleasant diagnostic and therapeutic procedures as part of their acute care process. Therefore Procedural Sedation and Analgesia (PSA) performed by emergency physicians is a necessary skill to reduce discomfort, apprehension, and potential unpleasant memories.
PSA is potentially 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.
PSA must only be performed under absolutely safe condition by health care providers who are trained in monitoring sedated patients and who are trained in recognizing and handling all possible adverse events to avoid complications.
Furthermore it is crucial that adequate training should be followed to ensure the knowledge and skills to safely administer PSA and to treat possible adverse events to avoid complications.
With the SAFE ER PSA 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 treat the most common adverse events to avoid 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 |
National Societies
Albania
Albanian Society of Emergency Medicine
Shoqata Shqiptare e Urgjencës Mjekësore - SH.U.M.
Date of origin: 1 January 2013
Austria 
Belgium
Year of origin: 1995
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
Bulgaria 
Croatia
Croatian Society of Emergency Medicine
HZL Hrvatsko Društvo za Hitnu Medicinu
Date of origin: 12 June 1990
Czech Republic
Year of origin: 1994
Denmark
Danish Society for Emergency Medicine
Dansk Selskab for Akutmedicin
Date of origin: 28 September 2006
Estonia
Estonian Society of Emergency Physicians
Eesti Erakorralise Meditsiini Arstide Selts
Date of origin: 30 March 2004
Finland 
France
French Society for Emergency Medicine
Société Française de Médecine d'Urgence
Date of origin: 3 March 1985
Georgia
Georgian College of Emergency Physicians
საქართველოს გადაუდებელი მედიცინის ექიმთა კოლეჯი
Germany
German Association for Emergency Medicine
Deutsche Gesellschaft Interdisziplinäre Notfall- und Akutmedizin (DGINA) e.V.
Greece
Hellenic Society of Emergency Medicine
Ελληνική Εταιρεία Επείγουσας Ιατρικής
Date of origin: 4 December 2002
Hungary
Hungarian Society for Emergency Medicine
Magyar Sürgösségi Orvostani Társaság
Date of origin: 8 April 2000
Iceland 
Ireland
Irish Association for Emergency Medicine
Cumann Leigheas Éigeandála na hÉireann (IAEM)
Date of origin: 29 April 1989
Italy
Italian Society for Emergency Medicine
Società Italiana di Medicina di Emergenza Urgenza (SIMEU)
Year of origin: 2000
Kosovo
Kosovo Society of Emergency Medicine
Shoqata për Mjekësi Emergjente e Kosovës (SHMEK)
Year of origin: 2008
Latvia 
Lithuania
Lithuanian Society for Emergency Medicine
Lietuvos Skubiosios Medicinos Draugija
Date of origin: 3 October 2003
Malta
Association of Emergency Physicians of Malta
Ghaqda Maltija tat-Tobba ghall-Emergenzi
Date of origin: 1 December 2006
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
Dutch Society of Emergency Physicians
Nederlandse Vereniging van Spoedeisende Hulp Artsen
Year of origin: 1999
Norway 
Poland
Polish Society for Emergency Medicine
Polskie Towarzystwo Medycyny Ratunkowej
Year of origin: 1999
Portugal
Portuguese Society of Urgent and Emergency Medicine
Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina de Urgência e Emergência
Romania 
Serbia
Serbian Society of Emergency Physicians
Društvo lekara urgentne medicine Srbije
Date of origin: 13 November 2014
Slovakia
Slovak Society of Disaster and Emergency Medicine
Slovenská spoločnost' urgentnej medicíny katastrof
Date of origin: 4 October 1997
Slovenia
Slovenian Emergency Medical Association
Slovensko združenje za urgentno medicino
Date of origin: 29 June 2016
Spain
Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine
Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias
Date of origin: 8 March 1988
Sweden 
Switzerland 
Turkey 
Ukraine 
United Kingdom