Hamilton Ventilator Course

Mechanical ventilation: Basic principles, Ventilator modes/settings, Setting up the Hamilton Ventilator for Mechanical Ventilation

Course Accreditation

The course is an accredited learning activity for 6 hours for medical and nursing continuing professional development.

Latest Course update: January 2025

This course is suitable for Medical Officers, Nurses, Paramedics and Students

Mechanical ventilation is one of the central skills in critical care medicine. In the emergency patient it is most often used to improve oxygenation and ventilation in the patient with acute respiratory failure, altered conscious state and to treat acute raised intracranial pressure. Ventilation may be required to treat life-threatening presentations of COPD, heart failure, pneumonia, sepsis, trauma, intracerebral haemorrhage and overdose. An understanding of the indications, complications, practical aspects of mechanical ventilation and respiratory failure is essential in emergency medicine. 

The course explores the following topics:

1. Ventilation: Airway Management

2. Ventilator Mode and Settings

3. Ventilation: Application to Clinical Practice

4. Setting up the Hamilton T1 Ventilator for Mechanical ventilation