Emergency and critical care - World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency care is an integrated platform for delivering accessible, quality and time-sensitive health care services for acute illness and injury across the life course Integrated emergency care services facilitate timely recognition, treatment management and, when needed, continued treatment of the acutely ill at the appropriate level of the
Emergency critical care - World Health Organization (WHO) The Basic Emergency Care Course (BEC) is a joint WHO ICRC IFEM learning programme for first contact health workers who care for patients with acute illness or injury BEC teaches a systematic approach to the initial assessment and management of time-sensitive conditions where early intervention saves lives
Basic Emergency Care - World Health Organization (WHO) The Basic Emergency Care Course (BEC) is a joint WHO ICRC IFEM learning programme for first contact health workers who care for patients with acute illness or injury BEC teaches a systematic approach to the initial assessment and management of time-sensitive conditions where early intervention saves lives
WHO-ICRC Basic Emergency Care: approach to the acutely ill and injured Overview Developed by WHO and ICRC, in collaboration with the International Federation for Emergency Medicine, Basic Emergency Care (BEC): Approach to the acutely ill and injured is an open-access training course for first contact healthcare providers who manage acute illness and injury with limited resources
Emergency Care Toolkit - World Health Organization (WHO) The WHO Emergency Care Toolkit (ECT) is an open access bundle of interventions, developed to be implemented in emergency units within hospitals, particularly in resource limited settings The main aim of the ECT is to support systematic care of the acutely ill and injured within hospitals
Emergency Care Saves Lives - World Health Organization (WHO) Initiative aiming to provide access to Basic Emergency Care training for nurses and midwives from 25 countries by the end of 2025 The Disease Control Priorities project (2018) estimates that more than half of deaths and a third of disability in low- and middle-income countries could be addressed by effective emergency care
Emergency Care Checklists - World Health Organization (WHO) The Emergency Care Checklists are intended to be applied to those patients requiring emergent interventions (e g all patient triaged to high level of acuity) The Trauma Care Checklist has been applied in multiple settings and shown to improve care process measures in real world testing and reduce in mortality for those with the most severe
Integrated emergency, critical operative care (ECO) Operative care is understood to span both anaesthesia and surgery services in theatres and ambulatory centres, while surgeons and anaesthesia professionals may deliver emergency, critical and operative care, including obstetric care, as part of comprehensive peri-operative care and beyond Emergency and critical care may be delivered in an
Prehospital care delivery assessment - World Health Organization (WHO) Prehospital emergency care is a key component of the health care system Strengthening prehospital care can help address a wide range of conditions across the life course, including injury, complications of pregnancy, exacerbations of non-communicable diseases, acute infections and sepsis
Mass Casualty Management - World Health Organization (WHO) The Basic Emergency Care (BEC) course is a joint WHO ICRC learning program for first contact health workers who care for patients with acute illness or injury BEC teaches a systematic approach to the initial assessment and management of time-sensitive conditions where early intervention saves lives