Acute Care Education
Transform Medical provides training sessions (virtually & face-to-face) in Acute Care designed for the following clinicians:
Our founder and lead educator, Dr Anand Senthi also provides conference presentations.
Our Clients:
Education & Training Topics:
ED Education
These sessions are designed for clinicians working in Emergency Departments.
- Resuscitation & The Structured Assessment of the Unwell Patient
- ECG Interpretation
- Approach to ECG Interpretation
- Detecting subtle signs of ischaemia and arrhythmogenesis
- COVID-19
- Respiratory Emergencies
- Cardiac Emergencies
- Shock
- Paediatric Emergencies
- Metabolic & Toxicological Emergencies
- Neurological Emergencies
- Orthopaedic Emergencies & Minor Trauma
- Procedural Skills Training
GP Education
These Acute Care training sessions are designed for clinicians such as GPs who see patients with acute care, urgent and emergent clinical presentations in GP clinics, Urgent Care or other out of hospital environments.
Often the more serious cases can present so infrequently that it can be difficult for GPs to maintain the knowledge base and skills to deal with urgent and emergent cases when they do present. To combat this, we provide structured approaches that are easy to remember which can help clinicians safely navigate through these tricky situations. We also provide advice on drugs and equipment that can be stocked in the GP clinics. practice so that GPs have the tools they need to manage these presentations safely and effectively.
Our team is headed by Dr Anand Senthi, one of the few doctors dual trained as both a Specialist Emergency Physician and GP who understands the unique challenges and resource limitations that GPs face in managing such emergent presentations in the GP setting and our sessions are designed with this specifically in mind.
In addition to the topics listed below, any of the topics listed under ED Education, can be tailored to a non-ED, GP type audience.
Topics
- Structured Assessment of the Unwell Patient
- Airway and Breathing Management Skills
- Including hands-on training with equipment
- Basic & Advanced Life Support training
- ECG Interpretation
- Approach to ECG Interpretation
- Detecting subtle signs of ischaemia and arrhythmogenesis
- Management of Acute Severe Pain
- Emergency Doctors Bag
- Training on the optimal choices for both free and low cost drugs and equipment to keep on hand to manage acute emergencies in various settings (e.g. GP clinic, home visits, side of the road)
- Telehealth Patient Consultations & Education
- We have delivered significant VC Education and conducted a unique telehealth service delivery pilot known as ED4GP. We are consequently well placed to train practitioners on all aspects required for the efficient and effective delivery or Telehealth patient consultations and education, particularly in regards to Urgent Care and Acute Care.
- Tailored GP setting Assessment and Management of:
- Shortness of Breath including
- Acute Severe Asthma, COPD, Pneumonia, Pulmonary Oedema (various types)
- Anaphylaxis – assessment and management
- Status Epilepticus
- Head & Cervical Spine injury
- How to safely clinically clear the patient, avoiding the need for imaging
- Pulmonary Embolism
- How to safely clinically exclude PE without the need for investigation
- Diagnostic algorithm that minimises the need for imaging
- Risk stratification of patients to decide which patients can be fully investigated as outpatients
- Shortness of Breath including
- Best Clinical Resources
- We recommended the best clinical resources (including websites and apps) to guide clinicians in the assessment and management of acute clinical presentations
Past Education Events
2023
- EMS Conferences (International)
- “How to make clinical and real-life decisions based on uncertain evidence”
- WA Department of Justice – Prison Medical Officer training
- Emergency Medicine Training Day
- Full training day for the WA prison medical officers at their annual conference meeting
- Involved multiple simulation sessions as well as core content group teaching
- Emergency Medicine Training Day
- EMET 2023
- Toxicological & Metabolic Emergencies (November)
- Annual Skills Day – Procedural Skills (Novemeber)
- Cardiac Emergencies (September)
- Respiratory Emergencies (May)
- Resuscitation (February)
2022 Events
- WA Rural Emergency Medicine Forum 2022 (Aloft Hotel Perth, August)
- “EBM (Evidence Based Medicine) 2.0 Plenary Talk”
- “The COVID Intubation workshop”
- EMET 2022
- Orthopaedic Emergencies & Minor Trauma Roadshow (November)
- Annual Skills Day (Procedural Skills) (October)
- Neurological Emergencies Roadshow (September)
- Sedation & Analgesia Webinar (August)
- Paediatric Emergencies Roadshow: “The Sick Child” – (May)
2021 Events
- WA Rural Health Conference (Perth Convention Centre 27th March)
- “Ruling out & Treating Pulmonary Embolism in 2021 – Everything Has Changed”
- WA Rural Emergency Medicine Forum (Pan Pacific Hotel Perth 20th February)
- “Cricothyrotomy Workshop”
- EMET 2021
- COVID-19 Webinar – Update on ED Assessment & Management (30th Nov)
- Shock Roadshow (2nd-4th November)
- Toxicological & Metabolic Emergencies Roadshow (7th-9th Sept)
- Cardiac Emergencies Roadshow (18th-20th May)
- Respiratory Emergencies Roadshow (23rd-25th February)
2020 Events
- EMET National Grand Rounds Webinar – Evidence Based Fraud & The End of Statistical Significance (30th September)
- RACGP–WAPHA Webinar: “Telehealth Triage”
- Discussed effective and safe strategies to optimise the delivery of GP services by telehealth, particularly in respect to Urgent Care assessments.
- WA Rural Health Virtual Conference
- “Evidence Based Fraud & The End of Statistical Significance”
- EMET 2020
- Annual Procedural Skills Day 21st November
- Resuscitation Roadshow 3rd-5th November
- Orthopaedics Emergencies & Minor Trauma Roadshow 8th-10th September
- COVID-19 Webinar – ED Assessment & Management 21st April
- Neuroemergencies Roadshow 25th-27th February
- EMS Conference 2020 Rusutsu, Japan
- “Evidence Based Fraud & The End of Statistical Significance”
2019 Events
- Rural Health West Conference 2019 (23-34th March) presentations:
- “Clinical Clearance of Acute Presentations”
- “Detecting Subtle STEMIs”
- “Basic ECG Interpretation”
- EMET 2019
- “The Sick Child” (5th-7th November)
- Annual Procedural Skills Day (12th October)
- “Shock” (10th-12th September)
- “Toxicological & Metabolic Emergencies” (21st-23rd May)
- “Cardiac Emergencies” (26th-28th February)
- WAGPET GP Registrar Mini-releases 2019:
- Perth South Hub 11th December 8:30am (WAGPET Offices, Bentley)
- Perth South Hub 5th December 8:30am (WAGPET Offices, Bentley)
- Perth South Hub 16th Oct 9am (WAGPET Offices, Bentley)
- Perth East Hub 11th June 8:30am (WAGPET Offices, Bentley
- Peel Hub 7th March
- Perth North Hub 6th Feb
- Perth East 4th Feb
- EMS Conference 2019 Rusutsu, Japan
- “An Airway to be Mindful Of”
2018 Events
- Darwin Educational Dinner Meeting Tuesday 30th October 2018 at Novotel
- Free event open to all GPs in the Northern Territory
- EMET 2018
- “Respiratory Emergencies” Roadshow (6th-8th November)
- Annual Procedural Skills Day Saturday – Northam Hospital (6th October 2018)
- “Resuscitation” Roadshow (11th to 13th September)
- Orthopaedic Emergencies & Minor Trauma Roadshow (22nd-24th May)
- Neurological Emergencies Roadshow (27th Feb-1st March)
- WAGPET GP Registrar Mini-releases 2018: “GP Emergencies”
- Perth South Hub 11th December
- Perth South Hub: 5th December
- Perth South Hub: 17th October
- Mid-West Hub at Geraldton: 5th September 2018
- Perth North Hub: 4th and 7th September 2018
- Perth South Hub: 14th August 2018
- Kimberly Hub at Broome: 8th August 2018
Acute Care Experts also provide:
Acute Care Guidelines
Clinical guidelines to assist doctors in a range of Acute Care environments such as in ED, the GP clinic, Urgent Care and in the field.
Acute Care Telehealth
Transform Medical conducted a telehealth pilot program known as ED4GP, that provided real-time urgent specialist consultations to patients presenting to general practice clinics with acute clinical presentations.