Complex Respiratory Skills Training

Respiratory skills can be provided as stand alone training courses or as a 2 day training workshop, get in touch to discuss your requirements. All respiratory skills have elements of practical skills training with clinical devices and equipment. See course content below.

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Maximum 10 learners per session

Tracheostomy Management:

  • Anatomy and physiology

  • Indications for tracheostomy

  • Practical: Different types of tracheostomies

  • Practical: Changing dressings and tapes. Care of tracheostomy stoma.

  • Practical: Managing a cuffed tracheostomy and considerations for cuffed tubes

  • Practical: Fitting, managing and changing an inner cannula tube

  • Importance of humidification

  • Communication of a client with a tracheostomy

  • Nutrition for a client with a tracheostomy

  • Record keeping and documentation for clients with a tracheostomy

  • Emergency tracheostomy box contents and uses.

  • Emergency tracheostomy management national guideline procedure including use of Ambu-bag

tracheostomy in mannequin
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Ventilation (CPAP/BiPAP):

  • Recognising respiratory difficulty

  • What does a ventilator do?

  • Reasons for ventilation

  • Non-invasive and invasive ventilation

  • Modes of ventilation

  • Importance of humidification

  • Ventilator settings and values

  • Common ventilator alarms

  • Complications of Ventilation and Troubleshooting

  • Practical: Ventilator set up with humidifier

  • Importance of documentation

Cough Assist:

  • The Cough Reflex

  • Active cycle of breathing

  • What is cough assist

  • Reasons for cough assist

  • Indications for cough assist

  • Abdominal thrusts

  • Complications of cough assist

  • Practical: Correct procedure of cough assist

  • Managing the cough assist equipment

nebuliser, mask and mouthpiece

Nebulisers:

  • Function of a nebuliser

  • Reasons and indications for nebulisers

  • Practical: effective administration nebulisers

  • Prescriptions of respiratory medications

  • Complications of nebulisers

Suctioning:

  • Reasons for suction

  • Oral / Nasopharyngeal Suctioning

  • Open and closed suction

  • Complications of suction and recognising problems

  • What to look out for in secretions

  • Practical: Safe oral and deep suctioning procedure including ANTT technique

Oxygen:

  • Indications for oxygen therapy

  • Usual parameters for oxygen saturation

  • Practical: Oxygen delivery systems and equipment

  • Safe handling of oxygen cylinders

  • Practical: Monitoring oxygen therapy

  • Contraindications of oxygen therapy

  • Safe administration of oxygen

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Anatomy and Physiology:

  • The Respiratory System

  • How to assess breathing

  • Abnormal breathing

  • ABC

Emergency Respiratory Support:

  • Recognising, addressing and managing respiratory emergency

  • Practical: Use of bag-valve-mask (ambu-bag) in respiratory distress

  • Escalation of care