ETAT+ Germany

our german ETAT+ course

The working group ETAT emerged within the German Society for Tropical Paediatrics & International Child Health (GTP) e.V. on the initiative of three alumni of the Intensive Course on Tropical Paediatrics (TropPaed), who have experienced the clinical significance of ETAT on various missions abroad. They have been trained as tutors and have lead trainings abroad. The first ETAT+ training by this working group was held successfully in September 2018 in Witten/Herdecke and received very positive feedback.

The course focusses on improving global child health through capacity building as well as assessment and treatment of sick children in low resource settings. It offers an introduction to a well-organized “critical care pathway” and good quality, basic paediatric emergency care, which can help to reduce paediatric hospital mortality.

Course objectives

The course is primarily based on an interactive training, skill stations and scenarios which are preceded by lectures on the topic.

  • Triage all sick children when they arrive at a health facility, into the following categories:
    • those with emergency signs
    • those with priority signs
    • those who are non-urgent cases
  • Assess a child’s airway and breathing and give emergency treatments.
  • Bag and mask application
  • Assess the child’s status of circulation and level of consciousness
  • Manage shock, coma, and convulsions in a child.
  • Assess and manage severe dehydration in a child with diarrhoea
  • Intraosseous canula insertion
  • Manage acute severe malnutrition
our “Plus-Topics”:
  • Manage a sick neonate and a premature baby
  • Assess and manage burns and trauma in a child
  • Assess and manage children with altered consciousness incl. differential diagnoses (cerebral malaria vs. bacterial meningitis)
  • Plan and implement ETAT in your own working area (implementation)

course organisation:

  • Target group: medical professionals with work experience, who are preparing for a placement abroad (e.g. physicians, nursing staff, midwifes, emergency technicians)
    • participants come from different European countries (e.g. Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Ukraine)
  • If possible: at least 1 x international guest from LMIC with medical background and ETAT experience is invited (sponsorship)
  • Course language: English
  • Organizers: working group ETAT of GTP
  • 2-3 times a year within Germany (e.g. in Hamburg, Dresden or Stuttgart)

our working group:

leading team: Sara Loetz, Judith Lindert, Barbara Zimmer

Our working group consists of more than 20 very active team members

  • 14 of them are “big teamer” who are already experienced enough to train “small teamer” (new working group members)
  • members belong to very different backgrounds
    • doctors working in the field of paediatrics, anasthaesia, paediatric surgery, internal medicine, laboratory medicine, pharmaceutical approval;
    • nurses working in paediatrics, intensive care
  • there are different topics people work on in smaller teams to improve the quality of the course
    • e.g. manual development, marketing, finances, involving more nurses, research/evaluation
    • but also to improve international cooperation: e.g. with Sierra Leone/Burundi…

Our motto: “keep it simple, but do it well” (quote Elizabeth Molyneux)

For more information, please do not hesitate to contact us: etatag (at) globalchildhealth.de 

For more information on the GTP please follow the link: https://globalchildhealth.de/en/