About the course

BASIC LR for Doctors – Severe Acute Respiratory infections (Basic Assessment and Support in Intensive Care in Low Resource Settings) is an e-learning course designed for doctors managing critical ill patients with respiratory failure in MSF settings with specificities for COVID 19.. 

This e-learning is self-paced and covers the patient journey from presentation in the emergency room, initial stabilisation, critical care, referral and end of life care. 

Target audience

This course is designed for doctors managing critical ill patients with respiratory failure in MSF settings.

Validation

Duration

Approximatively 4 hours. 

Learning objectives

The main learning outcome of this course is for course participants to systematically evaluate and manage a patient with severe respiratory failure and COVID 19. 

This course will cover the ABCDE approach in assessment and management of a patient. 

At the end of this course participants will be able to identify a critical patient. 

List of contents

This course will take you through the patient journey of a critical patient: 

• Arrival at the health center
• Triage
• Mild-moderate case: initial assessment and management
• Severe case: Initial clinical assessment and management
• Clinical deterioration during hospital stay 
• Assessment and management of acute respiratory failure
• Management of other organ failures
• Acute respiratory failure (Advanced)
• Referral to higher level of care
• End of life care 
• Post course test
• Useful resources to go further 

Methodology

Self-paced course with modules divided chronologically following a patient journey.

Each section starts with an interactive presentation of theory followed by a case discussion and application of theory learned. 

Evaluation

Each section is inbuilt with interactive question. A post course test with 10 Multiple choice questions is designed at the end of the module to provide immediate feedback on knowledge retention and application.

Certification

 This e-learning course has been designed by the BASIC Collaboration (Chinese University of Hong-Kong) and MSF. We offer a badge for the completion of the successful completion of the course. 

Requirements/Prerequisites

To take this course, learners must be doctors interested in knowing more about critical patients with respiratory failure. 

Enrolment 

If you would like to enroll to this course, please send an e-mail to harmony.to@paris.msf.org providing:

• your name and surname (make sure the spelling matches that in your Tembo profile), and 
• information about the MSF project you are working in and the name and contact details of your medical referent.

If you are not working for MSF, please mention in your e-mail your position and the health facility you are working in. 

Release and update

Next update will be in 2025

Technical considerations

The course is best completed on a computer, laptop or tablet. However, it can also be done on a mobile if the screen size is large enough.

Be sure you have good internet connection or work offline on your smartphone/tablet.

Disclaimer:

This material aims to provide guidance to MSF staff taking into account MSF implementation conditions and practices and is intended for internal use only. This material is not to be made publicly available. Please note that this material is updated regularly, and all information is subject to change. MSF does not accept any responsibility or liability with regard to the use of information contained in this material by any third party.