Advanced Cardiac Life Support Training Courses for Urgent Care in Emergency

Posted by Colin Butler on May 30th, 2017

Cardiac arrest is an emergency condition that demands united teamwork and the appropriate sequential steps taken in order to salvage patient’s life at any cost. The effect of cardiac arrest and CPR counts on critical interventions, like early defibrillation, effective chest compressions and assisted ventilation.

But despite major developments and changes been made in amplifying the performance of CPR, most reported survival outcome figures are poor. As per a report, the rate of successful CPR in hospitals is as low as 2% to 6%. The report further mentioned that such poor results among victims of cardiac arrests has surfaced due to lack of resuscitation skills of nurses and doctors in basic and advanced life support systems as such.
 
In an effort to improve these outcomes, several guidelines on performing CPR and certified training courses based on these guidelines have become a standard in the medical profession training across the world.

Advanced Cardiac Life Support Training

ACLS refers to a set of clinical interventions for the urgent treatment of cardiac arrest, stroke and other life threatening medical emergencies, as well as the knowledge and skills to deploy those interventions.

The prime objective of these specialized courses is to provide information and hands-on-practice in the management of peri-arrest situations in accordance with the upgraded code of standard.

Course content includes:

• 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 and myocardial infarction
• Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest
• Related pharmacology
  
  These AHA’s ACLS courses (duration 2 days) impart cognitive knowledge and relevant psychomotor skills required in CPR, and provide a standardized care to cardiac arrest victims in accordance with the specific guidelines.
  
  The results of the present study show that the rate of immediate survival was 18.3% during the pre-BLS/ACLS period, which increased to 28.3% during the post-BLS/ACLS period, thereby revealing that formal certified BLS and ACLS training courses drastically improve the survival rates and survival to hospital discharge rates following resuscitation of cardiac arrest victims.
   
  Author’s Bio: Author is an online blogger. The article is on Advanced Cardiac Life Support Training.