Training for emergency department staff on specific subjects related to the emergency department.
Life support
Advanced and immediate life support courses
Learn the skills and knowledge to manage a patient in the immediate period of crisis, including the recognition, assessment and immediate management of the deteriorating patient.
Australian Resuscitation Council
Paediatric care
Advanced paediatric life support
A structured approach to emergency paediatric care.
Advanced Paediatric Life Support Australia
Paediatric clinical practice guidelines (NSW Health staff only)
A series of modules on several topics to facilitate the delivery of best possible care to infants and children in acute care settings as close to home. Learning pathway: 111805054.
My Health Learning
RESUS4KIDS Paediatric life support for healthcare rescuers
Respond appropriately to a collapsed child in a healthcare environment. This course is also available on RESUS4KIDS My Health Learning (NSW Health staff only) Course code: 81519090.
Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
Pain management and sedation
Procedural sedation
Initial training for procedural sedation in the emergency department.
Emergency Care Institute
Rural and remote
Remote emergency care
A course designed for emergency nurses, health practitioners and medical officers working in rural and remote areas.
CRANAplus
Surgery
Care of the critically ill surgical patient (CCrISP)
A structured and comprehensive approach to managing surgical patients, recognising the deteriorating patient and determining which patients are most at risk.
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Definitive surgical trauma course (DSTC)
A course for consultant surgeons and final year trainees covering: surgical decision-making in complex scenarios, operative technique in critically ill trauma patients, difficult trauma situations with learned techniques of haemorrhage control and the ability to handle major thoracic, cardiac and abdominal injuries
DSTC Australasia
Tests
Abbreviated Westmead post traumatic amnesia scale (NSW Health staff only)
Learn how to use the scale and the associated A-WPTAS state form. Course code: 95267584.
My Health Learning
Ultrasound
Learn the basic physics of ultrasound and its use in point of care, extended focused assessment sonography and trauma and abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Australian College for Emergency Medicine
Trauma
The Institute of Injury and Trauma Management have a list of trauma training courses and other education opportunities.