Course description
COVID-19 Training for Healthcare Workers
Upcoming start dates
1 start date available
Who should attend?
Prerequisites
None
Course delivery details
This course is offered through Stanford University, a partner institute of EdX.
1-10 hours per week
Costs
- Verified Track -$10
- Audit Track - Free
Certification / Credits
What you'll learn
- 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
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