Introductory course for emergency physicians

This interactive course is aimed at all prospective helicopter emergency physicians: our experienced instructors will teach you the essential structures of air rescue and provide you with valuable practical tips from the day-to-day work of air rescue. We cover both medical and flight operations aspects and prepare you optimally for your deployment in the air rescue service.

The theory is followed by an introduction to handling the materials and equipment used at an air rescue station. In this way, the theory of the course is optimally combined with practical exercises at the station.

In detail, the course includes

• Introduction to air rescue
• Primary missions
• Secondary missions
• Special transports (incl. chest
• compression device, so-called ACCD)
• Mission sequence
• Medical aspects of air rescue
• Team resource management
• Working on the ward
• Legal aspects
• Weather and time management
• hygiene
• tactical communication
• Introduction to the helicopter, flight
• safety & emergency procedures
• safety management

The duration of the online course is two days.