About Open Acute Care

Open Acute Care (OAC) was launched in October 2024 by the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Emergency, Critical and Operative Care at Johns Hopkins University, with support from the United States Agency for International Development. OAC serves as a repository for reliable, open-access tools and resources related to emergency, critical and operative care, with relevance to resource-variable settings.

OAC also serves as a joint platform for other WHO collaborating centres or other institutional partners who have an aligned goal of expanding access to acute care services across the globe.

OAC houses an open-access resource library of acute care educational resources for medical educators and learners, short courses, an illustration library, and tools to customize job aids.  Our resource library includes curated and original content that can be used for training at various levels and for multiple healthcare cadres. The materials are suited for independent learning as well as integration into institutional training programs and curricula.

Open Acute Care is an expansion of Open Critical Care. OpenCriticalCare.org is a collaborative educational effort funded by USAID-STAR (Sustaining Technical and Analytic Resources Project) and led by the University of California San Francisco Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia. The project was possible with collaboration from the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences, OPENPediatrics, FHI 360 EpiC Program, Jhpiego RISE, and Palladium.

Sharing & Permissions

All content originally authored by OpenAcuteCare is created as Creative Commons 4.0 International Licensing, With Attribution and Non-Commercial.

• Attribution should be “The OpenAcuteCare.org Project.”
• You can modify or translate the tools (let us know if you need an alternative editable file format)
• If you choose to modify an original AcuteCare tool, please add to the credit ‘Adapted by ______’

Please review the copyright for content linked to but not authored by OpenAcuteCare.org.

More details can be found in our Terms of Use

We envision a world where everyone has prompt access to high-quality acute medical care whenever they need it, without barriers or limitations.

At Open Acute Care, our team is comprised of passionate individuals who are dedicated to improving global access to life-saving care.

Quality is at the core of everything we do. Our contributors are globally recognized healthcare institutions and established medical professionals who hold to the highest standards of quality and extensively vet all material prior to submission, the materials are then reviewed by our editorial board.

However, please note this site is intended to be educational in nature and is not a substitute for clinical decision making. It is the responsibility of the user to ensure all information contained herein is current and accurate by using published references. Some of the resources referenced on this site may be copyrighted by third parties as indicated. OpenAcuteCare.org collaborators shall not be responsible or liable for any loss, injury, claim, or damage of any kind resulting from use of the resources, errors in the resources contained on this site. Manufacturers’ documentation must be referenced prior to the use of any equipment.

If you have any concerns about the accuracy or quality of materials you find on OAC, please let us know.

We invite you to join our community. Together, we can redefine the future of acute medical care and make quality healthcare accessible to all.