This intermediate life support course is designed
for all the health care profession who may be involved in the resuscitation of
patients.
Delegates will be shown how to recognise a sick
patient and the immediate action to be taken in the event of a
cardiorespiratory arrest. This will involve carrying out basic life support,
airway management and safe defibrillation (manual and/or AED).
Course content:
- Recognising the sick patient and preventing cardiac arrest
- ABCDE approach to recognizing Ôat riskÕ or critically ill patients
- Basic life support
- Basic understanding of the heart and conduction system
- Basic cardiac arrhythmias
- Safe defibrillation (manual and/or AED)
- The ALS universal algorithm
- Basic airway management
- Monitoring the patient
- Emergency drugs and their delivery
- Casualty teaching