CENTRAL INDIA RESUSCITATION INSTITUTE                       

Course Description:

ACLS is based on simulated clinical scenarios that encourage active, hands-on participation through learning stations where students will practice essential skills individually, as part of a team, and as team leader.  Realistic simulations reinforce the following key concepts:  proficiency in basic life support care; recognizing and initiating early management of peri-arrest conditions; managing cardiac arrest; identifying and treating ischemic chest pain and acute coronary syndromes; recognizing other life-threatening clinical situations (such as stroke) and providing initial care; ACLS algorithms; and effective resuscitation team dynamics.

Course Length: 13½ hours approx., including breaks (course lenghth depends on candidate number)

Intended Audience
The course is designed for medical providers such as physicians, nurses, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, respiratory therapists, and other professionals who may respond to a cardiovascular emergency.

Student Materials:

• ACLS Provider Manual
• ACLS Student CD
• ACLS Precourse Checklist
• ACLS Pocket Reference Cards

Written/Skills Exam:  Required for completion card

• The course is intended for junior and senior residents, RMOs, senior nurses

• Intended for Many cardiac arrests, deaths and unplanned admissions to intensive care are associated with the failure to establish appropriate and early preventative treatments.

• Early recognition of disordered physiology and initiation of prompt simple actions reduces complications and saves lives.

• Some of the topics of workshops and lectures on the course include

• assessing the critically ill patient, the blue and breathless patient,

• the hypotensive patient,

• the patient with a disordered level of consciousness,

• the oliguric patient

• emergency airway management and pain relief in critical care.

• Intended for  ICU RMOs and ICU nurses

• Novel 2 day course, combining theory and practical training

• Topics include airway assesment, patient assesment for need of intubation, airway anatomy, pharmacology of drugs used during intubation

• Practical topics include hands on training on life-like mannikins for intubation, use of LMA

• Half a day dedicated to use of various modes of ventilation, how to set up ventilator, recognition and trouble- shooting of common problems during ventilation.

• Intended for RMOs and nurses

• Step by step approach to common ECG recognition in the casualty and ICU

• Introduction to treatment approach for ACS and arrhythmias

• Will help in building the confidence of managing arrhythmias in real life

• Intended for Junior Residents, RMOs and nurses

• Protocol for interpretation of Arterial blood gas analysis

• Very useful course to understand acid base physiology

• Will help in managing emergencies

• Targeted to the RMO’s and nurses involved in patient transfer from one facility to another
• Will give insights regarding the risks involved and the safety issues in transfer of critically ill patient
• Will help in planning the ambulance service
•  Safety during transfer is central to this course

(PGD in HM and EMS)

ELIGIBILTY:

MBBS, BAMS, BHMS, post graduate in non clinical branches- anatomy, physiology

COURSE DURATION:

4 months

COURSE STRUCTURE:

Class room teaching

Clinical observership in multispecialty hospital, including multispecialty ICU

Self learning through library, presentations

COURSE CURRICULUM:

• SOFT SKILLS:

Personal grooming and presentation

Public speaking: case presentation

Communication skills: interacting with colleagues, patients, consultants, telephonic communication of patient’s condition

Writing a meaningful CV- curriculum vitae (biodata)

Record keeping: notes, discharge summary, death summary, death certificate, DAMA, consent

• CPR SKILLS:

American Heart Association’s BLS and ACLS COURSES

• BASIC  HISTORY TAKING AND SYSTEMIC EXAMINATION

• BASIC PHARMACOLOGY

Antibiotics

Cardiac drugs and inotropes

Antihypertensives

Antidiabetics

• BASICS OF ECG

• ABG ANALYSIS and ARTERIAL SAMPLING

• AIRWAY MANAGEMENT and VENTILATION

• EMERGENCIES: Medical and surgical

Myocardial infarction, diabetic ketoacidosis, pneumonia, poisoning, drug overdose, snake bite

Perforation peritonitis, polytrauma, head injury

• ICU TOPICS

• COMMON DISEASES IN hospitalized patients

• SAFE PATIENT TRANSFER

• BASIC  PROCEDURES:

Dressings, backslab application, observing and theory of procedures like central line insertion, lumbar puncture, pleural and peritoneal tapping, opportunity of observing and assisting in OT

• The PGD in HM and EMS prepares you as a General Practitioner or as the ideal RMO that every hospital and nursing home wants to employ.
• Gives you an international qualification: American Heart Association’s healthcare provider card
• Gives you theoretical knowledge that is important from practical point of view in patient assessment and management and confidence to start your own General Practice.
• Gives you cutting edge exposure to a busy 30 bed multispecialty hospital and ICU