This course is designed to meet the requirements of ILS courses laid down by UK Resus Council guidelines and is certified by ProTrainings. This CPD course meets the criteria for the General Dental Council’s development outcomes C. This course includes medical emergencies as set out by the GDC in the dental practice.
This course includes the latest CPR and Coronavirus recommendations.
The aim is to train healthcare personnel in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, simple airway management and safe defibrillation by enabling them to manage patients in cardiac arrest until the arrival of a cardiac arrest team and to participate as members of that team. The course is run over one day and consists of lectures and practical sessions.
The course looks at how to identify the causes and promote the prevention of cardiopulmonary arrest. Recognise and treat the deteriorating patient using the ABCDE approach and undertake the skills of quality CPR and defibrillation. It also covers simple airway manoeuvres and utilises non-technical skills to facilitate initial leadership and effective team membership
All our first aid courses fully meet the UK and European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021 as per the HSE requirements. The latest updates will be available to current students even after you pass the course.
We also have an online Immediate Life Support (ILS) course aimed at the healthcare sector also as a blended, online and a classroom course nationwide at your workplace. We also offer an online Advanced Life Support course.
This course comes with 6.0 hours of CPD, although the time to complete the course online may be less than this. Total course time includes 5 hours and 57 minutes of video training as well as knowledge reviews, final test, remedial help and reviewing downloaded material.
The content of this and all our courses has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines and come with a Certified CPD Statement as well as a ProTrainings Certificate and for online courses an Evidence Based Learning statement.
Aim
To provide a higher level of theory and practical training in accordance with the UK Resus Council and ERC guidelines in immediate life support (BLS/CPR) and medical emergencies as required by the GDC. Also to provide training in theory and practical AED use in the event of a cardiac arrest.
Objectives
1. Understand basic life support requirements
2. Be able to demonstrate basic life support techniques and automated external defibrillator use in line with current national guidelines
3. Be able to demonstrate post-resuscitation procedures
4. Be able to carry out basic user maintenance and troubleshoot problems with an automated external defibrillator
5. Understand the safe use of an automated external defibrillator
6. Understand medical emergencies
Learning content
This training session is intended to train staff a higher level of immediate life support (BLS/CPR), AED and medical emergency skills to give them the knowledge and confidence to deal with a medical emergency in the practice with both patients and members of the dental team.
Development outcomes
This CPD course meets the criteria for the GDC’s development outcomes C
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