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