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Webinar: Training videos for biomedical equipment for oxygen delivery systems (French) [1]

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Date: 2023-09-19

Welcome to this webinar!

When: September 19, 2023, 02:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin Rome, Vienna.

Language: French

This webinar unveils a training course that was developed to teach health workers how to manage key respiratory medical equipment safely following the medical device life-cycle at the health facility (7 steps). The multimedia course is targeted toward health workers who may have to manage new respiratory devices; these may include clinicians in some settings or maybe dedicated biomedical staff in other settings. The equipment focused on in this course are:

Oxygen concentrator

Oxygen cylinder

Pulse oximeter

High-flow nasal cannula

CPAP and BiPAP

Patient monitor

Mechanical ventilator

Lifecycle of medical equipment at the health facility.

Agenda

WHO Resolution

In 2023 a new resolution to improve access of oxygen was adopted. The resolution is available in the following link: Increasing access to medical oxygen. OpenWHO OpenWHO is WHO’s interactive, web-based, knowledge-transfer platform offering online courses to improve the response to health emergencies. OpenWHO enables the Organization and its key partners to transfer life-saving knowledge to large numbers of frontline responders.

Training

To complete this training visit OpenWHO or the WHO training for medical devices website.

WHO related publications

WHO oxygen safety posters

WHO checklists for care, cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of respiratory devices

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