SafER PSA – Procedural sedation and analgesia for Emergency Physicians
Format
This pre-course is offered in a live one-day format on
Saturday October 15 at the Congress center in Berlin.
Objectives
Procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) is widely administered by emergency physicians, in order to perform painful or uncomfortable procedures in the Accident and Emergency department.
PSA is significant associated with complications and must be seen as a high risk procedure. Due to the inherent risks, it is important that doctors are aware of and follow available national, international and local guidelines.
Furthermore it is crucial that adequate training should be followed to ensure the knowledge and skills to safely administer PSA and to treat possible complications.
With this course we will give the participants an overview over existing national and international guidelines, show them how to prepare the patient and the environment to perform safe PSA on the Accident and Emergency department and how to avoid and treat the most common complications related to PSA. After an introduction with some short presentations we will mainly train with simulated patients in hands-on workshops.

Faculty
Course Director: Christian Heringhaus (The Netherlands)
- Douwe Rijpsma (The Netherlands)
- Ruth Sneep (United Kingdom)
- Egon Zwets (The Netherlands)
- Mischa Veen (The Netherlands)
- Meys Cohen (The Netherlands)
- Rebekka Veugelers (The Netherlands)
- Harald Hennig (Germany)
- Zohra Ebrahimi (The Netherlands)
- Vanessa Valk (The Netherlands)

For who
Emergency Physicians and residents. Doctors who will follow the pre-course must be adequately trained in advanced life support and airway management skills.
Educational Material
To be handed over onsite at the course:
Pocket cards with relevant information for PSA preparation and treatment of complications.
After the course participants will get a list with relevant literature.
Registration
The costs for this course are xxxx
Please register through your MyEUSEM account by clicking on the EUSEM Congress registration button. Within the module you can select the pre-courses you would like to join.
Time | Topic | Duration |
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08:00 – 08:30 | Registration | 30 |
08:30 – 09:00 | Welcome and Introduction | 30 |
09:00 – 09:30 | Lecture: SafeER PSA – The course | 30 |
09:30 – 09:45 | Lecture: PSA a continuum | 15 |
09:45 – 10:20 | Lecture: PSA – a routine procedure? | 35 |
10:20 – 10:35 | Lecture: Risk assessment and pre-sedation screening | 15 |
10:35 – 10:50 | Lecture: Airway | 15 |
10:50 – 11:00 | Lecture: Patient characteristics and positioning | 10 |
11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee break | 15 |
11:15 – 12:00 | Lecture: Monitoring | 45 |
12:00 – 13:00 | Lecture: Pharmacology | 60 |
13:00 – 13:45 | Lunch | 45 |
13:45 – 14:05 | Table Top exercise | 20 |
14:05- 14:15 | Demonstration | 10 |
Time: 14:15 – 15:55 | Topic | Duration | |||
Sedation workshops | 90 | ||||
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15:55 – 16:15 | Break | 30 |
Time: 16:15 – 17:55 | Topic | Duration | |||
Sedation workshops | 90 | ||||
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17:05 – 17:30 | Yellow | Green | Blue | Orange | |
17:30 – 17:55 | Orange | Yellow | Green | Blue | |
17:55 – 18:25 | Quiz | 30 |