November 10 2009, I attended the ALERT course. It was a one-day course designed to teach healthcare staffs how to anticipate, recognise and hopefully prevent critical illness at an early stage hence the name ALERT (Acute Life-threatening Events - Recognition and Treatment).This course was never part of our medical school curriculum. I think it still not part of it this year. It was introduced for the first time this year for us medical students in TCD. Usually this course was part of healthcare workers i.e doctors and nurses' job development courses.
The course took the whole yesterday in St James Hospital's Postgraduate Centre in the morning then moving to the new Clinical skills lab under the mortuary. Despite the fact that it was quite a long day and somehow all the radiators was working below expectation, I love the course. I really like it.
The instructors involved this time were ICU nurses in SJH. 4 instructors for 25 students. Pretty small group, very good teaching and they are absolutely brilliant! Knowing that we are final year students who gonna be the interns working with them from next 1st of July (that's when new interns start all over Ireland, unlike Malaysia), they throw out some beneficial tips and share their experience with us.
In the afternoon, we all got the chance to discuss and lead the management of some critical scenarios that are going to haunt us on our on calls: hypotension, altered consciousness, breathing difficulties, collapse, vomiting blood. Somehow these scenarios prefer to occur at night while we are alone, on call in the 'darkness'. And this course gave us some confidence on how to sort some of the junior doctors nightmares.
Freezing, tired but happy. I went home feeling time and money well-spent yesterday. Definitely recommend this course to all my colleagues.
Nota: Segan jugak la bila terima agak banyak (bagi saya banyak la tu...) respon daripada kawan-kawan yang membaca blog ni. Itulah, gatal sangat tangan tu nak menulis hal yang peribadi, kan dah malu...huhu. Err, nanti saya balas respon-respon anda ya. Sekarang ada sedikit sibuk.
sebenarnya komen blog tak perlu dilayan sangat.Ia sepatutnya dijadikan ruang untuk kita membaca respon orang saja terhadap isu yang kita tuliskan.
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Fakhrul thx. Aku sangat berminat dan pada masa yang sama mengkagumi hasil tulisan kau yg sangat panjang dan very deep (tentu ambil masa memikirkan perkara sebegitu). Thx I really appreciate. Now I will comment on your blog.
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