Pre-Conference Workshops

Pre-Conference Workshops
Monday 9 September 2024

We are delivering four pre-conference workshops, twice, running concurrently.
Registered delegates will have the choice to attend two of the three. Registration fees available here.

1. Management and Recognition of the seriously ill Child - provided by British Association for Immediate Care (Scotland)

Facilitators: Nicola Prat, Alison Moggach & Emma Gough 

Aim: By the end of this session you’ll be able to assess, recognise and manage a seriously ill child

Objectives:

• Understand the use of PEWS and Sepsis 6 as a tool for recognition of the seriously ill child
• Able to describe and use the structured approach for assessment of the seriously ill child
• Initiate the structured clinical assessment to identify life threating illness

Workshop structure:

•  Review of A-E structure in children
• PEWS
• SEPSIS 6 (Including sepsis 6 table top)
• Demonstration Scenario of sepsis
• Participant scenario with learning and exploring differential diagnosis

Summary: The instructors will run a scenario to demonstrate a safe and systematic management of a TCA.

Scenario will show delegates how to:

• Confirm cardiac arrest.
• Apply defibrillator and confirms non-shockable rhythm.
• Review mechanism and consider this a likely traumatic cause.
• Know when to pause CPR.
• Look for evidence of catastrophic compressible external haemorrhage (non apparent).
• Prepare and insert supraglottic airway (iGel).
• Identify deformed left femur and significant chest injury.
• Perform bilateral chest decompression.
• Apply pelvic binder then gain IO access.
• Use manual traction to pull left femur then set up IV fluids.

 This will be followed by Questions & Answers.