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Resus Training Courses

External Training Courses

Immediate Life Support (ILS)

The course provides staff with essential knowledge and skills to manage adult patients in cardiac arrest for the short time before the arrival of the cardiac arrest team or other experienced medical assistance.  This course is also the Health Board's mechanism for delivering manual defibrillation certificate.  It is designed to ensure that those who complete the course will be able to participate as a team member during a cardiac arrest.  ILS courses are categorised into AED or manual defibrillation and you will need to specify which one you require at the time of booking.  This will depend upon which defibrillator you have in your clinical area.

Who can attend

Doctors, registered nurses and clinicians who work in clinical areas that utilise automated external or manual defibrillators and have the approval of their manager.

Successful candidates will receive a Resuscitation Council (UK) certificate that is valid for one year and will meet the requirements of the Health Board's Defibrillation Policy.

Paediatric Life Support (PLS)

The PLS Course is designed to teach clinicians and nurses to effectively assess and initially manage the seriously ill and injured child.  The emphasis is on the first hour of care, as it is during this time that the subsequent course of the child is set.  The successful candidates will receive a PLS certificate from the Advanced Life Support Group that is valid for four years.

Who can attend

Doctors and nurses, who work with children in the acute care setting.

Advanced Life Support (ALS)

Advanced life support courses are seen as the gold standard in the UK and elsewhere in terms of training clinicians in the safe, effective and efficient management of cardiac arrest situations.  This is an intense two-day course which is assessed continuously and at the end of both days by both written and practical exams.  The successful candidates will be issued with an Advanced Life Support Provider certificate, which is valid for three years.

Who can attend

This course is designed for healthcare professionals who would be expected to apply the skills taught as part of their clinical duties, or to teach them on a regular basis.  Appropriate participants include doctors and nurses working in critical care areas (eg A&E, CCU, ICU, HDU, operating theatres, medical admissions units) or on the cardiac arrest / medical emergency team and paramedics.  All applicants should hold a current clinical appointment and professional healthcare qualification.  The revised curriculum reflects contemporary practice, and builds on the content of the Immediate Life Support Course.

Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS)

Advanced Paediatric Life Support courses are seen as the gold standard in the UK in terms of training clinicians to deliver effective emergency care for children.  The emphasis is on the first hour of care in an emergency, as it is during this time that the subsequent course of the child is set.  This is an intense three-day course that is assessed at the end of the third day by both written and practical exams. The successful candidates will be registered with the Advanced Life Support Group in Manchester as providers for a four-year period.

Who can attend

Doctors, paediatric senior nurses and clinicians or educators in healthcare.

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)

Advanced Trauma Life Support courses are the gold standard in the UK in terms of training clinicians to deliver effective emergency care for multiply-injured patient.  This is an intense three day course that is assessed by both written and practical exams.  The successful candidates will be registered with the Royal College of Surgeons of England as providers for a four-year period.

Who can attend

Medically qualified personnel of all specialities involved in the care of multiply-injured patients.  Candidates need to be of level FP 2 and above when attending this course.

Acute Life Threatening Events Recognititon and Treatment (ALERT)

The multiprofessional ALERT course was developed in an effort to reduce the incidence of potentially avoidable cardiac arrests, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and in-hospital deaths.  Its development embraces two important concepts – clinical governance and multiprofessional education.  The ALERT course will be particularly relevant to nurses and junior doctors in identifying, assessing, managing and appropriately referring ward patients that are ‘at risk’ of deteriorating to the point of critical illness.

Who can attend

Junior Doctors, nurses and professions allied to health working in acute hospitals.

Please contact the Resuscitation Office on 029 2074 8297 for further information.
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