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ACLS Provider Agenda
Prerequisites and Successful Completion
The following are pre-requisites to participation in this program:
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Healthcare professional who, by the nature of their job, has a duty to respond and
provide resuscitative efforts and active participation in emergency medicine.
Have current BLS Healthcare Provider status.
Have current or recently expired (<30 days) ACLS Provider status.
Have completed and returned pre-test 24 hours prior to ACLS Provider course.
The following are required to successfully complete this program:
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Successfully perform all core ACLS skills and cases.
Full participation in the ACLS Reaffirmation program.
Score at least 84% on the ACLS written examination
Objectives:
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Understand and demonstrate appropriate assessment and management techniques
for the pediatric emergency with an emphasis on the following:
o Assessment, using a systematic ABC approach
o Determination of the patient's physiologic status
o Management, using an ABC approach
o Specific management techniques - airway, breathing, circulation, vascular
access, medications, etc.
o Reassessment after each action
Understand and demonstrate appropriate assessment and management techniques
for the pediatric emergency in the following content areas:
o Airway and ventilatory management using BVM and endotracheal
intubations
o Causes of deterioration after intubations such as tube obstruction,
esophageal intubations, right main stem intubations and tension
pneumothorax
o Management of an obstructed airway
o Assessment and treatment of hypovolemic and septic shock
o Defibrillation and cardioversion
o Use of resuscitation drugs
Understand and demonstrate appropriate assessment and management techniques for the
adult with an emphasis on the following:
ACLS PROVIDER COURSE
Day One
8:00 am Registration & Breakfast
8:15 am Acute Coronary Syndromes / Stroke
8:40 am Break
8:50 am Case Studies Overview /
9:30 Break
9:40 Continue Casestuat00ns
10:30am Practice St
Airway Mana
tions
gement
Cardiac Ar
Bardycardia / PEA & Asystole
12:00 noon LUNCH (on your 45n)
1230 Putting It all
ogether Question and A15ser
1:15 am Written Exam1nation
2:15 pm Skills evaluation Stations
1. Megacode
2. Airway Management
3. Meg230
4:00 pm Summary & Adjo2rnment
4:30 Remediation (Terry White)