1. Advanced Life Support Level 1 Course
Version: July 2016

2. Housekeeping
ALS COURSE NAME BADGE

3. Course Health & Safety includes but not limited to:
Report pre-existing injury or any injury sustained during the course immediately
Latex/food or other allergy
Defibrillator safety
Use equipment and facilities responsibly

4. ALS1 course learning outcomes
The ALS1 course should enable you to:
recognise and treat the deteriorating patient using a structured ABCDE approach
prevent cardiac arrest
deliver standardised CPR in adults
deliver safe defibrillation (AED/SAED and/or manual)
become valued resuscitation team members

5. ALS1 course format manual lectures skill stations
cardiac arrest simulation (CAS) training

6. Chain of survival
Chain of Survival

7. Adult ALS algorithm

8. ILS course assessment continuous assessment cardiac arrest simulation
ABCDE approach
initial assessment and resuscitation
airway management
cardiac arrest simulation

9. Making the course a success
working as a team
developing yourself and others
engagement and immersion
professionalism
probity
including course confidentiality

10. Any questions?

11. Summary
the ALS1 course teaches the important knowledge and skills for each link in the Chain of Survival
the skills covered on the course are those that are most likely to resuscitate the patient

12. Advanced Life Support Level 1 Course Slide set
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