Essential and Emergency Care (EECC) has been devised as the care that should be provided to all critically ill patients in all hospitals in the world. This includes effective care that is low-cost and low-complexity for the identification and timely treatment of critically ill patients across all medical specialties.

Some general resources are available below: 

• African Federation for Emergency Medicine

Resource library of Africa-specific emergency and critical care. 

• BASIC Intensive Care Course

A short course covering the fundamentals of Intensive Care. 

• WHO and ICRC Basic Emergency Care Course

An open-access training course for frontline healthcare providers who manage acute illness and injury with limited resources.

• WHO Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Clinical Care Training 

A course for clinicians working in ICUs in low and middle-income countries with content on clinical management of patients with a SARI.

• WHO Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Toolkit 

A toolkit for clinicians working in acute care hospitals in low and middle-income countries managing acute respiratory infections.

• Open Critical Care Courses

Resource library of trainings from various global collaborators covering different aspects of emergency and critical care medicine.

• Stanford Critical Care Medicine Online Course 

A course for clinicians on the fundamentals of critical care. 

Basic Emergency Care Resources