SUMMARY

Find course dates via Heart & Stroke BC.

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) is a video-based, Instructor-led, advanced course, builds on the foundation of basic life support (BLS) skills. It emphasizes the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR and takes healthcare provider training to the next level ─ highlighting the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes.

• Systematic approach
• High-quality BLS
• Airway management
• Rhythm recognition
• Defibrillation
• Intravenous (IV)/intraosseous (IO) access (information only)
• Use of medications
• Cardioversion
• Transcutaneous pacing
• Team dynamics

Target audience: Healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies.

SUMMARY

Learn to assess and manage critically ill children during the first hours in the emergency department. Participants are recommended to have previously completed at least one PALS or APLS Course successfully.

Learning objective:

• Assess and manage critically-ill children during the first hours in the emergency department
• Detect an imminently toxic child and institute treatment without delay

Skills Learned:

• Assisted and mechanical ventilation
• advanced airway
• vascular access (intraosseous and central)
• chemical/electrical cardioversion

Target audience: physicians who are routinely involved in the care of critically ill or injured children, including emergency room physicians, pediatricians, and senior emergency medicine and pediatric trainees.

Upcoming:

Pre-Conference Course: APLS Course (Simulator-Mediated Advanced Pediatric Life Support) will be offered on Thu May 2, 2019.

SUMMARY

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) is an international course that teaches participants the basic skills necessary for timely management of traumatic injury. The course includes didactic and practical sessions.

Learning Objectives

Participants will learn to identify injuries associated with major trauma, management of skills required for early resuscitation, and treatment of injured patients.

Skills

• Assess the patient’s condition rapidly and accurately
• Resuscitate and stabilize the patient according to priority
• Determine if the patient’s needs exceed a facility’s capacity
• Arrange appropriately for the patient’s inter-hospital transfer (who, what, when, and how)
• Assure that optimum care is provided and maintained throughout the evaluation, resuscitation, or transfer processes

Target audience

Physicians practicing emergency care

Register

Vancouver General Hospital – please email TraumaEduc@vch.ca to register. More information on lower mainland courses.

Royal Columbian Hospital – please email atlsfha@gmail.com to register. RCH courses are hybrid (self-learning modules), Friday nights are on zoom, and Sat in person @ RCH. More information on lower mainland courses.

For additional course listings in British Columbia, please visit the American College of Surgeons’ (ACS) website, or click here to access a PDF of the courses available from January through November 2019. To access a list of the ATLS Coordinators located in Canada, please click here.

SUMMARY

The AIME course has been providing valued and practical hands-on airway management learning experiences for clinicians around the world for over 14 years. AIME educators are experienced (and entertaining) clinical instructors who understand the varied work environments of practicing clinicians. Whether you are a physician working in a large, high volume centre or a small remote setting, AIME will provide a practical approach for airway management in emergencies.

Learning Objectives:

• Be more confident and comfortable in making acute care airway management decisions.
• Have acquired a practical staged approach to airway management.
• Be able to choose the most appropriate method of airway management based on a variety of patient presentations.
• Make appropriate choices in the use of pharmacologic agents used to facilitate airway management.
• Know when and how to use various tools and adjuncts for managing the difficult airway.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care.

For information on registration: www.aimeairway.ca

Upcoming in BC:

CAEP AIME @ St. Paul’s Emergency Update, Whistler, BC

Register via UBC CPD 

SUMMARY

Apr 23, 2021 | 0800-0900 | Zoom

Overview

Healthcare providers are using innovative technology-based solutions to improve their practice and patient care. To help you navigate this important and highly evolving field, UBC Rural Continuing Professional Development is pleased to partner with the Rural Education Action Plan, UBC Digital Emergency Medicine Department, BC Academic Emergency Network and the Academic Health Science Network to deliver free online case-based presentations on technology-enabled healthcare in British Columbia.

This program brings together health care providers and colleagues in a stimulating and thoughtful discussion to understand and normalize the daily use of safe and effective technology in healthcare throughout BC

SUMMARY

Apr 23 (Fri) | 0800–0900 PDT

Target Audience: BC Healthcare professionals.

Overview: Join us to learn how Child Health Advice in Real Time Electronically (CHARLiE) is supporting rural pediatricians, how Nowh Guna’ Tseh Cultural Competency Training transitioned to virtual delivery, and review HealthLink BC Emergency iDoctor in-assistance (HEiDi)’s findings from COVID-19 immunization 8-1-1 calls. Join the conversation and ask your questions of these highly experienced and knowledgeable public health leaders at our next rounds!

SUMMARY

Framing the simulation – with thorough briefing and skilled debriefing – is absolutely critical for safe and effective simulation-based learning. The Briefing, Debriefing & Facilitating Simulation online course provides essential theoretical knowledge and practical skills in facilitation.

Topics include: 

• Relevant pedagogical theory
• Creating a safe learning climate
• Briefing learners for success and optimal learning
• Approaches and techniques for debriefing
• Incorporating additional sources, such as videos and simulation participants

Online format: The program will be delivered as 4 modules, each lasting 1 week, with a 2-3 hour webinar each week. Additional self-directed reading and assignments must be completed between the webinars.

Methods: Live discussions with a simulation expert facilitator; assigned readings; case studies; peer-review and feedback; feedback and coaching from an expert simulationist.

Schedule: The first module opens on Nov 4; live webinars are on Wednesdays (Nov 4, 11, 18 & 25).

SUMMARY

Our unique and award winning series of 6-half day short snapper style focused CPD now delivered online only. We are excited to introduce our next series of lectures and incredible speakers.

Please save the dates so you don’t miss these next CME on the Run sessions! Each session will only take up 3.5 hours on a Friday afternoon!

Oct 2, 2020 | Gynecology/Urology
Nov 20, 2020 | Diagnostics/Radiology
Jan 29, 2021 | Therapeutics
Mar 5, 2021 | Ophthalmology/ENT
May 7, 2021 | Geriatrics
Jun 4, 2021 | Internal Medicine

SUMMARY

The CRISP course is a two-day, high-acuity, high volume critical care training simulation program, designed to allow physicians and other emergency practitioners to acquire, review, and practice their skills in essential life-saving procedures.

The course travels to rural communities and provides a day of procedure training, procedural skills development and ‘actuation’, i.e. putting skills into action, followed by a day of in situ simulation training led by a team of experienced faculty. Participants are placed in interprofessional learning teams to encourage teamwork and communication. The main objective of the course is to bring high-quality simulation and procedural training to rural hospitals and provide an opportunity for emergency teams to practice management of infrequently encountered emergent scenarios.

Target audience: physicians, nurses and other practitioners who participate in patient care in a rural hospital.

For information on registration, please email: cpd@bcemergencynetwork.ca

SUMMARY

Apr 14 (Wed) | 1830–2000 PDT

Target audience: Physicians and other health care providers.

Overview: Join us for this free online accredited educational session where highly experienced physician experts and specialists will answer your COVID-19 questions and share their experiences and best practices in managing the COVID-19 pandemic impacts on eating disorders in children and youth.

Panel: Julia Wong (Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Co-medical Director, Provincial Eating Disorder Program), Pei-Yoong Lam (Pediatrician, Co-medical Director, Provincial Eating Disorder Program), Michelle Horn (Program Manager, BC’s Children’s Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre), Vicki Klassen (Family Physician), Moderator: Susan Baer (Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Chief Psychiatrist, BC Children’s Hospital).

SUMMARY

Apr 15 (Thu) | 1830–2000 PDT

Target Audience: Physicians and other health care providers.

Overview: Join us for this free online accredited educational session where highly experienced physician experts will answer your questions and share their experiences and best practices in managing alcohol use disorder.

Skills Gained:
• Apply evidence-based guidelines and best practices for risk stratification and management of withdrawal in your patients with alcohol use disorder.
• Be able to apply pharmacologic and psychosocial approaches to prevent relapse
• Become familiar with available resources to support your patient care.

Panel: Dr. Sophie Waterman: MD, CFPC, Physician Lead for the Managed Alcohol Program which was started by the Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw First Nation, Physician Lead for the North Island Rural Birth Program and operates a full-time family and emergency medicine practice, Dr. Julius Elefante: MD, FRCPC, Clinical Instructor for the University of British Columbia, Psychiatrist at SPH, VGH, the West End Mental Health Team, and the Burnaby Centre for Mental Health and Addiction, and Dr. Paxton Bach: MD, MSc, FRCPC, FASAM, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia.

SUMMARY

Mar 31, 2021 | 6:30 PM PDT

Overview

Join us for this online accredited educational session where highly experienced and knowledgeable public health leaders and experts will answer your questions, share their experiences and recommended best practices in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar will include a panel of presenters and participants will be prompted to ask their questions in real time using webinar technology.

SUMMARY

Learn to use ultrasound to detect global cardiac activity, pericardial effusions, AAA’s, intra-abdominal hemorrhage and intra-uterine pregnancies.

The course is unique in that it has continually evolved as the instructor team gained insight into the way beginners learn this skill. Numerous techniques were developed to help the learner acquire a basic understanding of ultrasound image generation and interpretation, making the EDE Course the most effective teaching vehicle for this modality.

Although the EDE Course is occasionally offered as part of a conference, it was mainly designed to come to you if there is enough interest in your centre. There are a number of “off-the-shelf” courses; however, groups can also design their own custom course.

Target Audience: physicians practicing emergency care

For information on registration: www.edecourse.com

SUMMARY

The EDTU course is designed to provide physicians with a strong foundation in emergency ultrasound. The course emphasizes hands-on practical instruction to maximize participant learning. This is achieved with one-on-one bedside teaching on live models.

The course is a two-day program and will accommodate twenty learners. It is designed to facilitate the completion of most (if not all) of the required 50 supervised scans in each of the four areas (aorta, cardiac, abdomen, and pelvis). Target audience: Physicians practicing emergency care.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the basics of ultrasound physics, image generation and interpretation, and image artifact.
• Understand the different types of probes
• Complete most (if not all) of required 50 scans
• Generate limited focused images for all the primary applications of EDTU
• Understand the difference between EDTU and a formal ultrasound
• Understand how EDTU is to be used in the clinical assessment of patients and clinical algorithms for patient care.
• Identify anatomic structures on an ultrasound image that are necessary to interpret the primary examinations
• Understand the importance of establishing and maintaining a quality assurance program at your local ED.
• Learn the psychomotor skills necessary to generate accurate ultrasound images
• Understand the indications for and limitations of EDTU.

Information on registration.

SUMMARY

The Hands-On Ultrasound Education (HOUSE) program gives rural physicians the training and confidence to integrate point-of-care ultrasound into their practice. This customizable, traveling, hands-on ultrasound training program was created for rural physicians.

By providing education that is customized for each community, the program meets the needs of learners with a wide range of pre-existing skills. HOUSE delivers learning in a relaxed and fun environment with an instructor to student ratio of 1:2. To learn more visit: www.house.ubccpd.ca

We offer a large menu of options: choose from acute care, obstetrics, and internal medicine indications, or mix and match.

About the Hands-On Ultrasound Education Program

SUMMARY

The IH Rural Mobile Simulation Program was designed to provide instruction on emergency medicine concepts and to provide an opportunity for rural providers of emergency care to practice potentially life-saving skills. Like emergency medicine, this program is designed to be flexible to varying levels of experience, knowledge, and background. The course facilitators create a non-threatening, informal environment in which emergency care scenarios can be practiced.

With the high‐fidelity human patient simulators, we are able to create close to real life experiences in sites’ own emergency or trauma room, utilizing their supplies, equipment, and staff while building or enhancing relationships within the inter-professional teams.

Skills:

Focus: to enhance medical skills and knowledge, teamwork, and communication by placing more emphasis on learning that involves real‐time assessment and feedback.

• Simulation can be used to improve clinical decision‐making and psychomotor skills (e.g., airway management, trauma, resuscitation) within a multi‐disciplinary environment
• Simulation reduces medical errors through improved teamwork
• Scenarios can be tailored to meet the needs of the learners
• Training can be conducted in a setting that minimizes time pressures present in the clinical environment

Target audience: physicians, RNs, LPNs, RTs, Lab, BCAS, Students, Residents, Managers, and Administrators.

Information on registration.

SUMMARY

These ultrasound modules are intended to provide a further understanding of some of the ultrasound scans performed bedside in the emergency department. This is a pilot project to teach basic ultrasound concepts in an online interactive format.

We want you to think critically about how you might manage a patient with these images generated. The modules are not intended to replace an ultrasound course, nor replace image generation skills. Hands-on practice along with formal instruction is also required.

Modules include:

• Aorta ultrasound
• Ocular ultrasound
• FAST ultrasound
• Lung ultrasound
• Cardiac ultrasound

REGISTER HERE

SUMMARY

• Find BC course dates via Heart & Stroke BC
• Info on 1-day PALS Renewal Course registration via BC Children’s Hospital

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) is a video-based, instructor-led, advanced course, that focuses on a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation and team dynamics to improve the quality of care provided to seriously ill or injured children, resulting in improved outcomes.

This course is designed for healthcare providers who either direct or participate in the management of respiratory and/or cardiovascular emergencies and cardiopulmonary arrest in pediatric patients, as well as others who need a PALS course completion card for job or other requirements.

Skills:

• Perform high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) per Heart and Stroke
• Foundation basic life support (BLS) recommendations
• Differentiate between patients who do and do not require immediate intervention
• Recognize cardiopulmonary arrest early and begin CPR within 10 seconds of recognition
• Apply team dynamics
• Differentiate between respiratory distress and failure
• Perform early interventions for respiratory distress and failure
• Differentiate between compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock
• Perform early interventions for the treatment of shock
• Differentiate between unstable and stable patients with arrhythmias
• Describe clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
• Implement post–cardiac arrest management

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care

SUMMARY

The PATS course is a simulation-based course that has been developed by local trauma experts at BC Children’s Hospital to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the management of trauma in pediatric patients.

PATS makes use of online modules, simulation cases as well as skill stations to provide healthcare providers with high-yield and up-to-date information in a safe learning environment. Local BCCH protocols and resources are also reviewed and emphasized. This one-day course includes the use of expert role-modelling vignettes and hands-on practice. Each participant will be allocated to an interdisciplinary team consisting of physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists.

As there are no didactic lectures provided during the course, prerequisite online modules must be completed in advance. Access the course materials by logging in to the PHSA Learning Hub at http://learninghub.phsa.ca and search for “PATS” or “Pediatric Advanced Trauma Simulation”.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care, ED and ICU RNs, and RTs.

For information on registration, please email: jallaire@cw.bc.ca

SUMMARY

This course is designed to allow physicians to acquire and review their skills in essential life-saving emergency procedures including:

• Needle Cricothyrotomy and transtracheal jet ventilation
• Open Cricothyrotomy
• Needle Thoracostomy
• Chest Tube insertion
• Intraosseous Vascular access
• Pericardiocentesis
• Central line Vascular access, landmark technique
• Ultrasound-guided Central line vascular access
• Crisis Resource Management and cognitive error mitigation

PEMP combines online modules with an intensive immersive hands-on simulation experience that allows for realistic and clinically relevant practice of the procedures followed by integration of the procedures into the overall care of a simulated critically ill child.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care.

SUMMARY

With expanding access to Provincial eHealth viewers, private practice medical clinics in British Columbia are expected to implement appropriate security practices to ensure private patient information and the medical practice are protected. Designed in partnership with the Doctors Technology Office, this introductory course supports medical clinics to improve their current security practices. Learn how to create a culture of security, better train your staff, limit the risk of a cyberattack, and protect the privacy of patient information through this interactive one-hour online module.

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SUMMARY

A one-day simulation-based course involving the team-based resuscitation of critically injured trauma patients. Principles of crisis resource management and resuscitation management priorities and skills will be highlighted, as well as reviewing latest evidence and clinical practice guidelines, taking into account available resources and regional trauma guidelines. Knowledge of ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) based principles are essential and this course will build on the basics of ATLS.

Target Audience: Urban or Rural Emergency physicians, emergency RN’s and RT’s involved in the initial management of severe trauma patients.

For information on registration, please email: cpd@bcemergencynetwork.ca

SUMMARY

The SEMP course allows physicians providing emergency care to acquire, review and practice their skill in essential life-saving emergency procedures including:

• • Needle cricothyrotomy and transtracheal jet ventilation
  • Open cricothyrotomy
  • Needle thoracostomy
  • Guide-wire chest tube placement
  • Intraosseous vascular access in adults
  • Intraosseous vascular access in children
  • Pericardiocentesis
  • Central line vascular access, landmark technique
  • Ultrasound-guided central line vascular access

• Crisis resource management and strategies to reduce cognitive errors.

Course Format: Hands-on simulation course using highly-realistic task-trainers and human patient simulators combined with pre-course online modules. 24 participants maximum.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care; also open to interprofessional teams of physicians, nurses, paramedics, and respiratory therapists

For information on registration: https://ubccpd.ca/course/EMP2019

SUMMARY

TEC Vancouver 2021 (Technologies in Emergency Care):
Innovations in Emergency Medicine: From COVID to Sustainability

May 15 (Sat) | 0815–1230 PDT

Speakers include EM Network Members: Riyad Abu-Laban, Kira Gossack-Keenan, Ran Goldman, Christine Henderson, Kendall Ho, Chad Kim Sing, Chris Lee, John Pawlovich

Highlights:
• Watch the lectures and have everything in one place (access to the slides, handouts, bios etc)
• Virtually move from session to session like you would do in person
• Virtually network with colleagues via text or video messaging
• Connect with the speakers after their lecture is over
• Access group video chat rooms where up to 5 people can connect at once
• Visit the virtual exhibit hall to interact with organizations that are typically present during the in-person conference
• Registration includes access to the live virtual event, all available materials, and access to the post-event recording

Target audience: emergency physicians, family physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, academics, allied health professionals, residents & students.

SUMMARY

The use of bedside ultrasound by clinicians to guide invasive emergency and critical care procedures has been proven to improve success and reduce complications and is rapidly becoming established as the standard of care. UGEMP provides an opportunity to acquire and maintain the skills required to perform such procedures using Ultrasound-guidance.

Human models will allow for demonstration of human surface landmarks, real-time ultrasound image generation, and human ultrasound anatomy. Ultrasoundable task-trainers that simulate the tactile feel of human tissue will allow for the repeated practice of invasive procedures without harming the human models. The instructors will demonstrate the procedure and will supervise the learners’ performance of the procedures in small groups. Formative evaluation in the form of immediate feedback provided by the instructor will help the learners to monitor their progress and guide their learning.

Skills:

• Thoracentesis
• Chest Tube Placement, open and Seldinger techniques
• Central venous line placement
• Peripheral intravenous line placement
• Pericardiocentesis
• Abscess drainage
• Subcutaneous Foreign Body localization and removal
• Arthrocentesis
• Lumbar Puncture
• Paracentesis

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care

Information on registration.