ALS - Advanced Life Support

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ACRRM

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About this Course

• Are you proficient in resuscitation skills?
• Do you have knowledge of current resuscitation guidelines and research?
• Do you have the clinical skills to manage an adult cardiac arrest?
• Are you expected to be a competent Advanced Life Support (ALS) provider?

The CRANAplus Advanced Life Support (ALS) one day course is based on ANZCOR Guidelines and best practice principles. The course provides remote health clinicians/workforce with the skills required that contribute to a successful outcome after a cardiac arrest. Clinicians will learn the importance of early rhythm recognition, CPR, defibrillation and post-resuscitation care in the context of a remote and isolated setting.

CRANAplus encourages health care clinicians to apply ALS knowledge and skills acquired within the context of the policies of their employing health service.

Who is this course for?

The ALS one day course is designed to facilitate a personalised learning experience for the remote and isolated clinician (Nurses, Midwives, Paramedics, and Medical Officers) who may be required to provide ALS. This ALS course is contextualised for the remote and isolated setting with limited resources. The one day face to face workshop enables clinicians to practice and develop their clinical skills in a simulated environment under the guidance of highly experienced ALS instructors.

CRANAplus recommends that ALS be completed every two years and suggest that BLS be completed prior to undertaking the ALS course.

If you have any queries about the course or its relevance to your practice, submit an enquiry here.

Course Deliv­ery

The CRANAplus Advanced Life Sup­port one day course con­sists of the following:

• Online pre-course learn­ing and assess­ments that must be com­plet­ed one week before the course:
  Advanced Life Sup­port online the­o­ry mod­ules and assess­ment — approx. 8 hours of study 
• Atten­dance at a one day work­shop con­sist­ing of lec­tures, skill sta­tions and prac­ti­cal based scenarios
• An indi­vid­ual sce­nario based assessment

On suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of this course, clin­i­cians will be able to:

• Under­stand the impor­tant of ear­ly recog­ni­tion of a dete­ri­o­rat­ing patient using the ABCDE approach.
• Deliv­er stan­dard­ised adult CPR fol­low­ing the ALS algorithm.
• Man­age a car­diac arrest spe­cif­ic to rur­al and iso­lat­ed environments. 
• Con­sid­er the rel­e­vant caus­es of a car­diopul­monary arrest in adults and treat reversible causes.
• Main­tain high qual­i­ty CPR with min­i­mal interruptions. 
• Prompt­ly recog­nise and treat shock­able and non-shock­able rhythms. 
• Under­stand the post resus­ci­ta­tion care required.
• Demon­strate accu­rate doc­u­men­ta­tion and com­mu­ni­cate a clear con­cise han­dover of find­ings and inter­ven­tions using the ISBAR approach
• Under­stand the legal and eth­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tions around ALS

On suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion par­tic­i­pants will be awarded:

• A CRANAplus Advanced Life Sup­port Cer­tifi­cate (Valid for 2 years)
  

Accred­i­ta­tions

Bal­ance between lec­ture, pre-online mod­ules and prac­ti­cal ses­sion + amaz­ing facil­i­ta­tors. I found this course to be far more inter­ac­tive and clin­i­cal­ly appropriate.

Adelaide, SA 2020