Course Catalogue

The aim of this module is to enable the student to explore the management of patients in emergencies across a multitude of settings. Critical consideration will be given to the underpinning principles and drivers of emergency management and emergency presentations will be examined across a range of system based approaches. 

This module enables the student to explore the drivers both political and policy related, in relation to the management of the emergency presentation. The module enables the consideration of contemporary management of patients presenting with emergency conditions, and these will be explored across the systems. 

The module will consist of sessions that are lecture/seminar based in delivery with the opportunity for workshops and tutorial support as well as discussion. The module delivery may consist of lectures, seminars, role play, workshops and classroom activities and/or simulation. 

The module has been mapped to the Multiprofessional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (HEE, 2017) and covers the following core capabilities:

1.2; 1.4; 1.7; 1.8; 2.10; 4.4

The module will cover the following:

• Emergency care - context and setting
• Trauma management - how this differs in in and out of hospital settings
• Policies and drivers for trauma response - reflections on national incidents - JESOP
• Contemporary management and innovation in emergency care
• Managing emergency presentations
• Systems based presentations including, bleeding, head injury, cardiovascular collapse, drowning and hypothermia, overdose and reduced consciousness
• Mental Health assessment
• Metabolic emergencies

The assessment is a written essay.