Developing Anaesthetic Practice

This course builds on your experience as an Operating Department Practitioner to develop your knowledge of anaesthetic practice by looking at complex cases and advances in anaesthetic intervention.

With a focus on resilience and safety, this 10-week course encourages you, as an operating department practitioner (ODP) working in the perioperative environment, to build and reflect on your knowledge and experience in relation to anaesthetic practice in order that you can deliver high-quality care across a variety of specialities.

Service users come to theatres with many complex needs. Technology and skills continue to improve, continuously advancing what can be done in terms of both anaesthetic and surgical intervention. The higher degree of complexity though, the higher the level of planning and safety measures are required. ODPs will become involved in cases of increasing complexity and must therefore ensure that a safe environment is maintained and that they themselves remain resilient and compassionate when providing patient care.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Justify care delivered in order to meet the physiological, pathological, pharmacological and psychological needs of service users undergoing anaesthesia
• Critically analyse procedures and strategies utilised within the anaesthetic environment in order to manage potential and actual clinical or environmental problems in this area

Course content

• Advanced resuscitation including advanced airway management, anaesthetic complications and emergencies, rapid sequence induction, failed intubation procedure and advanced Life Support in the Perioperative environment
• Risk management in the anaesthetic environment including principles of risk management and hazards in the clinical area, human factors and environmental emergencies
• Service user monitoring including invasive/haemodynamic monitoring, interpretation of ECGs and doppler
• Health and Social Policy including implications of national and local health policy initiatives on perioperative environment
• Anaesthetic equipment including ventilators and modes of ventilation, care of ventilated service user and managing a service user with a tracheostomy
• Care of service users with specific needs including paediatric anaesthesia, anaesthesia in obstetrics, elderly, anaesthesia for service user with mental health problems or learning disabilities, anaesthetic management of the obese service user
• Managing diverse cultural needs for service users undergoing anaesthesia
• Regional anaesthesia including regional blocks and epidural and spinal anaesthesia
• Pain management including routes of pain relief, pharmacological, adjuncts to pain relief /and alternative pain management strategies
• Complications associated with anaesthesia including common and not-so-common complications associated with general, local and regional anaesthesia
• Venepuncture and Intravenous cannulation including relevant legislation, site and equipment selection, anatomy & physiology, potential complications and errors, infection control, the venepuncture procedure, the cannulation procedure, vascular and arterial access
• Responding to emergencies including assisting the anaesthetist, scope of practice, situational awareness, managing the environment and managing specific emergencies such as anaphylaxis, major haemorrhage, suxamethonium apnoea and malignant hyperpyrexia

• Shahadat Al-Thanawaya Al-Aama
• Students with an overall score of 60% would usually be eligible for the International Foundation Year
• UKVI IELTS 4.5 with a minimum of 4.0 in all components (CEFR B1) is also required

• If you are studying and completing any internationally recognised qualification such as A-levels; International Baccalaureate (IB) or the American Curricula from the International Schools within Jordan, then you can begin from the first year of a Bachelors degree. Please see individual course pages for specific entry requirements
• If you have completed a recognised international foundation programme with good grades
• Advanced entry to year 2 or 3 may be possible. You will need to supply detailed information including courses taken, grades achieved, syllabus and a grading guide