ECP Medic Course

A 2 day course designed for doctors, nurses, expedition leaders, and anyone else interested in furthering their medical knowledge. This course involves using invasive techniques.

Pre-requisites such as a current advanced first aid certificate are required for this course.

• Pre-expedition planning
• Casualty prioritisation techniques
• Expedition medical equipment
• Primary and secondary assessment
• Altitude medicine
• Resuscitation update
• Measuring blood pressure
• Airway management
• Spinal immobilisation
• Defibrillation
• Communication equipment
• Pain relief analgesia and anaesthesia
• Administration of medical gases
• Wound management
• Bones, joints and tissue injuries
• IV injections
• IM & SC injections
• Suturing in the field
• Legal issues
• Travel medicine