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Advanced
Cardiovascular Life Support
Designed for healthcare professionals who lead or participate in the management of cardiorespiratory arrests and other cardiovascular emergencies. This includes intensive care, emergency response and emergency medicine professionals, such as doctors, nurses and paramedical, as well as others who need the ACLS/ACLS course completion card for their work or for other reasons.
When a patient suddenly goes into cardiac or respiratory arrest, commonly known in hospital code as a “Code Blue” every single second counts.
Attendings, fellows, residents, NPs, PAs, House Supervisor, Charge RN, Unit RN, RTs.
ACLS
ACLS is a series of medical procedures and techniques performance, designed for the urgent treatment of cardiac arrest, stroke and similar life-threatening cardiac emergencies. American Heart Association ACLS training expands upon basic life support with more advanced skills such as defibrillation, IV use, intubation, team dynamic, pharmacology and ECG analysis. Many hospitals and other medical facilities require this advanced training for anyone who may be working with cardiac patients.
Case Study
Ambulance crew dispatcher radio call to the hospital:
Community hospital, this is Ambulance 629. We are currently en route to your facility with a 78-year-old male with a history of CAD, CHF, COPD and CKD who is in cardiac arrest. Shortly after chest pain, pt became acutely unresponsive, as per family member that witnessed arrest and CPR was started by wife via 911-instruction. At this time, Last set of vitals is Temp: 95.6 F axillary, BP- 79/43 while CPR being performed, Pulse: not palpable, RR- Ambu-bagged at ten breaths per min, SpO2- 87% on 100% Oxygen with Ambu-bag, a sine wave pattern was seen on the cardiac monitor during CPR. Initial rhythm was PEA, he went into ventricular fibrillation (VF) and was defibrillated twice. We have established IV to the right forearm and pt was given total of two rounds (ampules) of 1mg (1:10,000) epi were administered. Patient is being bagged via BVM with an end tidal CO2 (EtCO2) of 18. Achieved temporary ROSC has been obtained; but currently in PEA. We been on scene for 15 minutes, en route to your facility. Again we are 5 minutes out; any questions or orders?
Case Study Resolution
You are in charge of code blue response but you are not ready to take control of the chaos and there are 560 000 victims of cardiac arrest annually in the United States. You’ll have a whole team with you in minutes, from pharmacists to nurses, assistants, practitioners, doctors especially intensivists.
You do remember to assign, delegate designated your resuscitation team members into their positions in your Code Blue run, but you can’t recall what to prioritize, what is the latest recommendations and max dosage of meds nor intubation protocols. Heart Emergency Training Institute got your back. Before getting in touch with the Cath Lab, you train with us, in order to reverse the underlying cause and have this man alive!
Learn how advanced resuscitation intervention, from Heart Emergency Training can help give clinical teams the knowledge and situational awareness they need to save more lives.
The Successful outcome
Depends so heavily on timely response from highly skilled providers.
