COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application

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These videos will teach you how to effectively care for critically ill COVID-19 patients, whilst protecting yourself and your peers. 

You will learn: 

  • the daily practice for frontline clinical staff supporting critical care patients with and without COVID-19
  • how to apply ventilation and organ support principles when required
  • how to facilitate your own well-being in this high-stress, high-risk environment. 

This open resource is for frontline clinical staff, with or without previous critical care experience. Skills obtained will apply beyond the current pandemic. 

These videos are free open resources, originally created for the short online course COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application on FutureLearn. The course is no longer running but you can still work through the content in your own time using the videos in this open resource.

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This resource is hosted on the University's Media Hopper channel.

The resources that accompany this course are excellent. They provide the healthcare practitioner with the essentials of good practice in managing the critically ill patient.
Summary
  • Type of course
    Open Resource: openly licensed instructional digital materials such as text, videos, audio files and other media.
  • Cost and certification
    Free. No certificate available.
  • Duration
    Self-paced
  • Weekly effort
    Self-paced
  • Difficulty level
    Introductory: No previous knowledge required
  • Learning platform
    Open Educational Resources
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