Anesthesia and critical care with limited resources

Purpose and goal

With limited access to drugs and equipment and in deficient health care systems, specific knowledge is necessary to apply medical knowledge into clinical practice. The course highlights such difficulties and provides tools to practise anaesthesia and critical care in a medically safe and ethical way in resource limited contexts.

The aim is to provide competence, strategies and tools for performing anesthesia and critical care in humanitarian and disaster context.

Course content

The course focuses on anesthesia and critical care in humanitarian health interventions, covering the following core areas:

• Global Health
• Anesthesia and Critical Care
• Ethical Dilemmas and Medical Prioritization

For more information about the course content, please see the course syllabus. If you have any question about the course contact, please contact:

Märit Halmin, Course leader
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Global Public Health
E-mail: marit.halmin@ki.se

Teaching methods

Interactive teaching sessions, discussion seminars, case-based workshops, hands-on training with specific equipment, simulation training for mass casualty event. 

Target group

Specialised physician or nurse in anaesthesia and/or intensive care or ST physician in anaesthesia and intensive care with at least 3 years of their education completed.

When and where

The course is given during three (3) days between 20th to 22nd of November 2024 and will be held on campus Solna in Stockholm.

Selection of speakers

Johan von Schreeb, Professor in Global Disaster Medicine

Anneli Eriksson, RN, PhD, Research specialist in Global Disaster Medicine

Märit Halmin, MD, PhD, specialised in anesthesia and intensive care

Henrik Jörnvall, MD, PhD, specialised in anesthesia and intensive care

Elsa Carise, MD, specialised in anesthesia and intensive care Médecins Sans Frontières, France

Amin Lamrouse, specialised in anesthesia and intensive care Médecins Sans Frontières, Spain

Application

If you are going to take the course via Médecins Sans Frontières, please contact Eugene Bushayija, Eugene.Bushayija@stockholm.msf.org to apply.

Participants from Médecins Sans Frontières have priority for the course. If you are not a participant from Médecins Sans Frontières you can apply and be admitted according to availability for a course fee. If you are interested in applying to this course but are not a staff member of Médecins Sans Frontières please contact:

Kristoffer Mörtsjö, Project Coordinator
Karolinska Institutet Executive and Professional Education
Email: kristoffer.mortsjo@ki.se
Telephone: +46 8 524 864 32

Please note that the course is subject to the condition that we receive a sufficient number of participants.