COVID-19 Training for Healthcare Workers

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  • Free Access
  • Fee-based Certificate
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Syllabus

  • Recognize early and late clinical signs of COVID-19 infection in patients
  • Correctly apply, remove, and reuse appropriate personal protective equipment based on COVID-19 exposure risk
  • Systematically assess and provide immediate stabilization to undifferentiated sick patients
  • Perform a rapid bedside assessment of a dyspneic patient
  • Utilize bedside ultrasound to evaluate for COVID-19
  • Obtain and interpret key diagnostic tests in COVID-19 patients with dyspnea
  • Appropriately position and provide supplemental oxygen to patients with dyspnea
  • Administer oral and inhaled therapeutics in COVID-19 patients
  • Safely administer high-flow nasal cannula and non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
  • Correctly provide bag-mask ventilation using naso- and oropharyngeal airways
  • Recognize the need for and perform endotracheal intubation
  • Administer appropriate sedative and paralytic medications for intubated patients
  • Apply optimal initial ventilator settings in COVID-19 patients
  • Troubleshoot common clinical scenarios with patients on ventilators
  • Assess and wean clinically improving patients off of ventilators

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

Matthew Strehlow
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Stanford Medicine

S.V. Mahadevan
Professor, Emergency Medicine
Stanford Medicine

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