Essential pre-course preparation

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IMT2 pre-course preparation

Scrubbing and gowning up

Please take the time to revise your skills in this area, view this as many times as required to refresh your memory and feel completely competent to perform this key step. All of the other procedures on the course will be performed with the expectation of full asepsis, as covered at boot camp.

Scrubbing and gowning up video

Content:

  • Scrubbing and gowning up procedure

(3.5 minutes)

Clicking on the video will take you to The Mastery Skills Pathway website, the video is half way down the page. 

Vascular access and chest drain insertion

The skills day gives you the opportunity to be signed off as ‘ready for directly supervised workplace practice’ in central line insertion, ultrasound guided peripheral venous access, arterial line insertion and guide wire chest drain insertion.  However, this standard will only be reached if significant pre-course study is undertaken. This work is required even if you already feel confident in a procedure, to ensure that a common standard is attained in IMT. 

If faculty feel you have not engaged with the pre-course learning, or you do not meet the required standard during the skills day, you will not be signed off as competent to proceed with supervised practice on patients and will have to find an alternative method of training.

Arterial line insertion reading pack

Content:

  • Mastery skills pathway overview
  • Learning outcomes
  • Indications and risk assessment
  • Patient safety considerations
  • Potential complications
  • Basic sciences
  • Equipment and resources
  • Procedure
  • Appendices
Arterial line insertion video

Content:

  • Preparation and positioning
  • Asepsis and anaesthesia
  • Procedural pause
  • Insertion
  • Anchoring and dressing
  • Completion

(12 minutes)

Basic ultrasound and vascular access video

Content:

  • Understanding the basic physics
  • Different artefacts and when to expect them
  • Basic use of the machine - "knobology"
  • Vascular access demonstration

(15 minutes)

Central venous catheter (CVC) insertion reading pack

Content:

  • Mastery skills pathway overview
  • Learning outcomes
  • Indications and risk assessment
  • Patient safety considertaions
  • Potential complications
  • Basic sciences
  • Equipment and resources
  • Procedure
  • Appendices

(Approximately 1 hour)

Link to download document below 

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Central venous catheter (CVC) insertion reading pack

Central venous catheter video

Content:

  • Preparation, assistance and positioning
  • A three point procedural pause
  • Asepsis and local anaesthetic infiltration
  • Insertion
  • Securing and dressing
  • Completion

(19 minutes)

Ultrasound peripheral venous access reading pack

Content:

  • Mastery Programme Overview and Procedural Phases
  • Introduction, Intended Learning Outcomes and indications
  • Using ultrasound to find a vein, how ultrasound works, how to use the machine and adjust the image, how to identify an appropriate vein for cannulation
  • How to ‘drive’ the needle and probe together – cannulating using ultrasound
  • Equipment and Resources
  • Insertion procedure
  • Insertion checklist
Ultrasound guided peripheral cannulation technique

Content:

  • Preparation and positioning
  • Asepsis and anaesthesia
  • Procedural pause
  • Insertion
  • Anchoring and dressing
  • Completion

(7 minutes)

Intercostal chest drain (ICD - guidewire) reading pack

Content:

  • Mastery skills pathway overview
  • Learning outcomes
  • Indications & risk assessment
  • Patient safety considerations
  • Potential complications
  • Anatomy & physiology
  • Equipment & resources
  • Chest drain procedure
  • Appendices

(approximately 1 hour)

Link to download document below 

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Intercostal chest drain (ICD - guidewire) reading pack

Intercostal chest drain (ICD - guidewire) exemplar video

Content:

  • Equipment
  • Preparation
  • Procedure

(25 minutes)

Intercostal chest drain (ICD - guidewire) learner mastery session video

Content:

  • Example of a peer undertaking a mastery skills session on guidewire intercostal drain insertion

(55 minutes)

IMT2 Respiratory Failure Talk

This 20 minute presentation has been created as Pre-Learning for IMT2 Scotland Skills Days. 

It must be watched before attendance at the in-person Skills Days.

(20 minutes)