Emergency Triage Assessment And Treatment (ETAT+) Program Offered at Gertrudes Institute of Child Health and Research

Children admitted to hospital often die within 24 hours of admission. Many of these deaths could be prevented if very sick children are identified soon after their arrival in the health facility, and treatment is started immediately. This can be facilitated by rapid triage for all children presenting to hospital to identify those needing immediate emergency care.

The Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT+) course provides training on the most common emergency conditions in children presenting at the health facility. These include but are not limited to airway obstruction and other breathing problems; circulatory impairment or shock; severely altered CNS function (coma or convulsive seizures); and severe dehydration which require urgent appropriate care to prevent death.

Eligible Applicants: Nurses, Doctors, Clinical officers
The Fee Covers: Tuition, teaching and learning materials, venue, mid-morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and a certificate.
Venue: The course will be offered at the Gertrude’s Institute of Child Health and Research, , Muthaiga.
Duration Of The Course: 3 Days
Facilitators: Clinicians and allied professionals involved in the training of healthcare workers on the provision of resuscitation services in Africa.

Mode Of Delivery:

• Lectures and tutorials
• Small group workshops
• Small group discussions
• Skills stations demonstrations
• Skills Stations Closed discussions
• Open discussions
• Student-based Self-directed learning/facilitator teaching

To impact paediatric emergency knowledge, skills and attitudes to health workers in African set up.

At the end of the course, the graduate will be able to:

• Sort out children with emergency in outpatient.
• Assess the degree of effect of emergency.
• Treat emergency according to the assessment results.

• Nurses, Doctors, Clinical officers

• Introduction,
• Recognition of the seriously ill child,
• Management of the seriously ill child,
• Basic life support and use of Bag Valve Mask(BVM),
• Foreign body  removal (FBAO),
• Trauma,
• Cardiac Arrhythmia,
• Airway Vascular Arrhythmia,
• Newborn Respiratory Failure, Circulatory Failure
• Scenario Demonstration.

Gertrude’s Institute of Child Health and Research Muthaiga is a premier Training Centre of Excellence, located in Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital in Muthaiga along Muthaiga Road, a few kilometers from Nairobi Central Business District.

Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital is a not-for-profit Children’s Hospital established in 1947. Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital is the most established ... read more