Advance Cardiac Life Support Course (ACLS)
Overview
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support is an advanced, instructor-led classroom course that highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care and immediate post-cardiac-arrest care. It also covers airway management and related pharmacology. In this course, skills are taught in large, group sessions and small, group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented.
Course Content
- Airway management
- Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device and use of an AED
- Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team
- Effective Resuscitation Team Dynamics
- Key changes in advanced cardiovascular life support, reflecting the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
- Management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and stroke
- Recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia
- Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest
- Related pharmacology
Who Will Benefit From This Course?
Emergency, intensive and critical care health providers including doctors, nurses, technicians, paramedics and respiratory therapists
Duration: 2 full days from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Registration Fees
- GMU Students: AED 1000
- GMU Alumni & Thumbay
- Staff: AED 1200
- Externals: AED 1500
- Externals (group > 10): AED 1334
(*Exclusive of 5% VAT)