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“ARC Courses”Advanced Life Support

Immediate Life Support

Instructors

Professor Ian Jacobs

National Chair

Australian Resuscitation Council

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CouncilAims

• Outline the development of courses

administered by the ARC.

• Discuss the how these courses have

been integrated in Australia.

• Describe the requirements for

conducting these courses.

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• ARC accreditation process

• For existing ALS courses

• Planning for other courses

• ARC courses

• ALS

• ILS

• Instructors

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AustralianResuscitation

CouncilOrigin of the courses

• Originally developed by the Resuscitation

Council (UK)

• Need to have standardised teaching and

practice in resuscitation in UK hospitals.

• Appointment of resuscitation officers in UK

hospitals

• Under the auspices of RC(UK)

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• Developed a core curriculum and teaching

materials

• Standardised methods of instruction and

assessment

• National recognition

• Portability between health services

• Take to Europe UK

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• BLS well covered

• Very few accredited ALS courses

• Nothing nationally recognised

• No mutual recognition

• No standardised curricula

• Nothing likely to happen

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• ARC response

• Accreditation process

• Develop ARC ALS course

• Many clinicians from UK with RC(UK) ALS

certification

• Discussed the potential of importing the

courses from RC(UK)

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CouncilAdvantages

• International standard approach

• Course curricula developed

• Teaching materials / assessment available

• Needed to modify manuals!!

• International reciprocity

• Entered into agreement with RC(UK)

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CouncilHow did we kick it off?

• CTEC (UWA)

• Brought course to Australia

• 2 courses administered by RC(UK)

• All other courses administered by ARC

• Officially started in January 2007

• Several courses run prior to this date

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AustralianResuscitation

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AustralianResuscitation

CouncilHow did we kick it off?

• CTEC (UWA)

• Brought course to Australia

• 2 courses administered by RC(UK)

• All other courses administered by ARC

• Officially started in January 2007

• Several courses run prior to this date

AustralianResuscitation

CouncilHow have we been doing?

• ALS

• 53 courses

• 801 participants

• ILS

• 146 courses

• 1370 participants

• Instructors

• 4 courses

• 81 participants

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CouncilImmediate Life Support

• One day course

• Designed for those working in clinical situations who are likely to perform resuscitation – prior to advanced life support teams arriving

• Ideal for nursing staff / medical graduates / GPs

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• Course covers:

• Recognition of the ill person

• BLS

• Defibrillation

• Airway adjuncts (LMA)

• Basic drugs

• Scenario teaching

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• 2 day course.

• Designed for those

who would lead in

managing a

resuscitation event.

• Senior clinicians

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• Course covers:• Recognition of the critically ill

• Acute Coronary syndromes

• Advanced airways

• ALS algorithm

• Defibrillation / Cardioversion / Pacing

• Drugs

• Blood gases

• Tachy / Brady arrhythmias

• Special circumstances

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• Scenario teaching

• Pre course test

• Post course test

• Cardiac arrest

scenario - Test

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• Generic Instructors Course (GIC)

• ALS Group – UK

• Used by other courses (eg APLS)

• 3 day course

• Relatively old course

• ARC recognised the need to a revised

instructors course

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CouncilSo.. we did…

• Establish small ARC task force

• Wide involvement• ARC

• APLS

• EMST

• Medical education expertise• Professor Russell Jones

• New course – not replacement for GIC

• New instructional methods focusing on principles of adult education / learning

• Use of alternated modes of delivery • Internet / DVD

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• Educational matrix development

• Teaching modes linked with learning outcomes

• Prepared to try things differently

• Principles of adult leaning

• Some theory – memory / learning

• Plenty of opportunity for supervised teaching

sessions

• Feedback +++++++++

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CouncilSummary

• The ARC

• Accredits ALS courses

• Administers and co-ordinates the ARC – ALS

& ILS courses

• Nationally recognised

• Internationally portable

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