Medical Gases – Safe Handling and Administration – Level 2

Medical Gases – Safe Handling and Administration – Level 2 – Online CPD Training Course.

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Medical Gases – Safe Handling and Administration – Level 2

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Course content

This ‘safe handling and administration of medical gases’ e-learning course includes the following:

• Unit 1 – Introduction to medical gases:
  • Medical gas definitions
  • Medical gas supply systems
  • Piped medical gas systems
  • Monitoring medical gas systems
  • Medical gas cylinder safety
• Unit 2 – Medical gas cylinders
  • Piped medical gases
  • Medical oxygen
  • National Patient Safety guidance
  • Use of medical oxygen from the MGPS
• Unit 3 – Prescribing and administering medical gases
  • Common uses of oxygen
  • Safe use of oxygen in emergencies
  • Prescribing and administering oxygen
  • Target oxygen saturation
  • Who can administer oxygen?
  • Safe administration of oxygen
  • Use of oxygen monitoring devices
  • Discontinuing oxygen therapy
  • Complications of oxygen therapy
• Unit 4 – British Thoracic Society (BTS) guidelines
  • Medical oxygen in the patient’s own home
  • Entonox
  • Caution with Entonox
  • Self-administration of Entonox
• Unit 5 – other medical gases
  • Medical air
  • Cryogenic liquids
  • Liquid nitrogen
  • Nitrous oxide devices
• Unit 6 – Handling cryogenic liquids
  • PGDs for cryogenic liquids
  • Additional training requirements
  • Face to face training and assessment.

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Medical Gases – Safe Handling and Administration – Level 2.