Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course ( ACLS Course )

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

 

  • Course Length: In person
  • Time: Allow approximately 6–8-hour training.
  • Regulations covered: AHA Curriculum
  • Formats: In person
  • Language: Available in English
  • Exam required
  • Skills testing in required

This course builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR.

This advanced course highlights the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS).

* Students are required to take the pre-assessment for Advanced Cardiac Life Support.
https://elearning.heart.org/course/424

ACLS Course Includes:

  1. Study guide
  2. Multiple Megacode Scenarios
  3. Practice Clinical Scenarios
  4. Rhythms Page
  5. Pharmacology Page

ACLS Course Topic Outline:

  • Physiology of the Heart
  • BLS Overview
  • Tools and Techniques for Ventilation
  • Respiratory Arrest (with Pulse)
  • Ventricular Fibrillation (VF) and Pulseless Ventricular Tachycardia (VT)
  • Pulseless Electrical Activity
  • Asystole
  • Acute Coronary Syndrome
  • Bradycardia
  • Unstable Tachycardia
  • Stable Tachycardia
  • Acute Stroke
  • Management Algorithms for all cardiac problems
  • ACLS Pharmacology