NWU Faculty of Health Science Training Centre

16/05/2025

05/03/2025

You need to do this- its amazing 🤩

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Definitive Airway Management in Teams
This course is a 2-day program designed to meet the needs of the advanced provider in the provision of airway management. This course covers the basics or physiology related to airway management, an approach to managing the difficult situation in environments outside of the OR. The emergency management of airways within the context of the difficult physiology, anatomy, and psychology. The team approach is the focus of this course.
This course will orient the advanced provider to the pharmacology approaches, RSI in the difficult situation and will leave the provider with confidence in decision making and team management in the context of advanced airway.
▪️Physiology approach to patient assessment and management
▪️Indications and overview of intubation and RSI
▪️Creating the best environment for success
▪️Pharmacology, the recipe for the stable RSI
▪️Patient factors; what can we modify and how can we adapt
▪️Chasing the right equipment, how to maximise it’s potential
▪️Positioning for success
▪️Expert laryngoscopy, how to; DL & VL
▪️Operator 2; the key player
▪️Post intubation and ventilator set up
▪️Cases; applying it all together
CPD points with HPCSA: 22 +2 ethics points

08/02/2025

A collaboration between our training centre and Mooirivier Beskerming: to educate the public in bleeding control.

Here is the proof

STOP THE BLEED 🩸

05/02/2025

A little bit of community involvement from our training centre: We proudly trained members of the Trauma First Responder Chaplaincy today.

17/01/2025

Just some BLS

21/11/2024

19/11/2024

Collabortions in educating EMS
The NWU ALS Training centre is hosting an EMS Workshop on campus today.

Fast Heroes South Africa

14/11/2024

https://www.nwu.ac.za/sites/www.nwu.ac.za/files/files/i-media/I-life-202408/0004.html

17/08/2024

Level 1 First aid at the NWU in September

24/07/2024

Can you believe it?
We are cruising towards December and almost all of our scheduled training is fully booked.

To get hold of some of the last seats, click here to go to our shop.

https://shop.nwu.ac.za/oc/index.php?route=product/category&path=324_328

09/07/2024

A team from ER24 Potchefstroom earned first place in an Emergency Medical Services patient simulation competition in Midvaal.