ERC has developed a course of Advanced Life Support - ALS, which is based on the ERC guidelines. ALS course teaches theoretical and practical skills needed to prevent early stages of cardiopulmonary arrest in adults.
ALS course lasts for two days and the pace is intense. ALS manual is given to participants one month before the course, along with the test that must be fulfilled, and brought on the first day of the course.
It is assumed that participants possess skills in BLS (Basic Life Support).

Skills acquired:

 BLS (CPR)
 Cardiac monitoring and evaluation of emergency ECG
 Defibrillation
 Securing the airway (OF and NF airway, ET intubation, laryngeal mask)
 Managing seriously ill patient
 Treatment of reversible causes of cardiac arrest (4H and 4T)
 Implementation of each step from the algorithm and team guidance

Members of the resuscitation team:
 Participant 1 - Team Leader + defibrillator management
 Participant 2 - Airway supply
 Participant 3 - ECG, defibrillator, external cardiac massage
 Participant 4 - placing venous access, giving medications, assisting with intubation

Target groups:
 Doctors
 Senior nurses
 Students (medicine, dentistry and senior nurses)

 Course goals:
 Use of universal algorithms for emergencies in order to simplify and standardize procedures.
 Synchronizing operating mode and raising the level of knowledge in dealing with emergency patients.
 Streamlining and automating work during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
 Improving the percentage of survival in patients with heart failure.

The price of this course is 3.000,00 kn for doctors, and 2.500,00 kn for nurses and students.


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