Immediate Care Course (ICC)
This highly practical course is taught over five days, covering the care of adults, children and infants and including assisting with pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia. At times, you will learn alongside the fire and rescue training teams to experience realistic RTC scenarios with real vehicles.
Taught at Level 7, the course allows participants to adapt their own scope of practice to the pre-hospital environment. It will consider the complexities of the environment, resources and onward treatment pathways across a range of patient ages and presentations (medical and trauma), including mass casualty incidents. A focus will be brought to issues of human factors in the different scenarios encountered to enable the individual to work within formal multi-disciplinary emergency care teams. This will include undertaking the team leader role and will develop your leadership, decision-making and communication skills as much as your practical skills.
Specialist modules will encompass:
- pre-hospital care of the infant and the child
- assisting with a pre-hospital emergency anaesthetic
Much of this course takes part outside, come rain or shine.
Course Aims
- The ICC will allow participants to adapt their own scope of practice to the pre-hospital environment. It will consider the complexities of the environment, resources and onward treatment pathways across a range of patient ages and presentations (medical and trauma) including mass casualty incidents.
- The role of the RSI assistant will be taught and practiced within a pre-hospital context.
- Overall, a focus will be brought to issues of human factors in the different scenarios encountered so as to enable the individual to work within formal multi-disciplinary emergency care team as the team leader.
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The ICC is a 5-day multi-disciplinary course for registered HCPs who are, or who are anticipating, providing advanced pre-hospital care in a range of environments:
- those working as a immediate care responder, as part of a pre-hospital team, in sports or event medical services, the military and those seeking to explore extending their current pre-hospital role, and
- those preparing to sit immediate care exams, such as the Diploma in Immediate Medical Care exams of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Delegates will be required to have 3-years post registration experience, and some pre-hospital care experience and no practice restrictions or fitness to practice proceedings.
Prerequisite Knowledge:
- It is expected that participants will have knowledge of working in a pre-hospital care setting working within formal emergency care teams responding to persons suffering sudden illness and trauma.
- Have confidence in the provision of advanced life support have knowledge of current ALS protocols, including the provision of BLS with airway adjuncts (up to use of a supraglottic airway device) and an understanding of the AcBCDE approach to assessment and care
- There is no requirement to have completed the PHEC prior to undertaking the ICC.
- Participants, whether an independent prescriber or not, must have awareness of drugs and their regimes used in pre-hospital care and their associated pharmodynamic and pharmokinetic properties.
- There is an expectation to participate in practical scenarios which will include lifting and working at floor level.
International students
The course will be taught in English and will normally refer to guidelines and practice norms within the UK healthcare system.
19-23 October
Essex Fire and Rescue Training Centre, Wethersfield
Member: £1295.00 *
Non-member: £1495.00
*Current members (of any class) are eligible for the discounted members course fee if they have been a member for longer than 12-months OR if they subscribe for their first years membership with a single payment.