Advanced Life Support Refresher
Duration: 4.25 hours
This course is suitable for health professionals working in high-acuity settings such as community accident and medical clinics, independent midwives, paramedics, anaesthetic technicians, perioperative nurses, locum medical staff and others that already hold an ACLS or NZRC CORE certificate and need to re-certify at an advanced level. This course is recognised by the RNZCUC, ANZCA, RACS, and the NZDA as approved CME/MOPS activity. It is endorsed by The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP) and approved for 8 CME credits for Maintenance of Professional Standards (MOPS), this course is also approved for Registrars in the GPEP programme. The course covers everything included in the Basic Life Support for Health Professionals programme, plus:
Inclusions
- Use of suction and insertion of oropharyngeal airways
- Supraglottic airway device (eg. LMA/i-gel) insertion during CPR
- Overview of endotracheal intubation and wave form capnography
- Manual defibrillation
- Synchronised Cardioversion & Transcutaneous Pacing
- ECG recognition
- Administration of emergency drugs
- Intraosseous access
- Adult and child cardiac and peri-arrest simulations
- Principles of crisis management and team work in a crisis
Upcoming Courses
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