- Manage a patient with an urgent/emergent problem.
- Priority Topics: Abdominal Pain, Allergy, Anemia, Antibiotics, Anxiety, Asthma, Atrial Fibrillation, Chest Pain, COPD, Cough, DVT, Dehydration, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Difficult Patient, Domestic Violence, Dyspepsia, Dysuria, Earache, Eating Disorder, Elderly, Epistaxis, Fever, GI Bleed, Hepatitis, In Children, Infections, Ischemic Heart Disease, Joint Disorder, Laceration, Loss of Consciousness, Low Back Pain, Meningitis, Multiple Medical Problems, Pneumonia, Pregnancy, Prostrate, Rape/Sexual Assault, Schizophrenia, Seizures, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Substance Abuse, Trauma, Travel Medicine, UTI, Vaginal Bleeding, Violent/Aggressive Patient
- Manage a patient presenting with a mental health concern.
- Priority Topics: Suicide, Crisis, Anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders, Schizophrenia, Somatization, Personality Disorder
- Demonstrate knowledge of emergency resources for psychosocial issues.
- Priority Topics: Family Issues, Domestic Violence, Behavioural Problems, Substance Use, Grief
- Assess and manage a patient with acute pain including appraisal and use various methods of analgesia, topical/ local anesthesia and sedation.
- Priority Topics: Laceration
- Demonstrate basic airway assessment and management skills.
- Recognize and initiate management in a patient with acute respiratory distress or ventilatory failure.
- Priority Topics: Asthma, Croup, COPD, Pneumonia, URTI
- Identify, classify and treat shock.
- Priority Topics: GI Bleed, Abdominal Pain, Allergy, ACLS, Anemia, Atrial Fibrillation, Chest Pain, Dehydration, Diarrhea, Dizziness, Laceration, Loss of Consciousness, Meningitis, Poisoning, Seizures, Stroke, Trauma, Vaginal Bleeding
- Obtain appropriate vascular access for drugs and fluids
- Priority Topics: Dehydration
- Exhibit basic skills in interpreting 12 lead electrocardiograms, including identification and management of acute dysrhythmias.
- Priority Topics: Ischemic Heart Disease, Atrial Fibrillation, ACLS
- Manage the patient in cardiorespiratory arrest.
- Assess and manage a patient with altered level/loss of consciousness/coma.
- Priority Topics: Loss of Consciousness, Seizures, Meningitis, Trauma, Poisoning
- Assess need for and manage resuscitation in adults and children.
- Priority Topics: Trauma, Newborn
- Identify patients who are in crisis and appropriately manage their disposition.
- Outline the components of the trauma care system in your region.