Resuscitation Training
In 2010 developments at the Alfred ICU enhanced our approach to teaching and training technical and non-technical resuscitation skills
Advanced Life Support (ALS) provider courses
In 2010 as collaboration between nurses and doctors from ICU, anaesthesia and emergency medicine, the Alfred has become an Australian Resuscitation Council ALS provider course centre, in order to run its inaugural course in partnership with the Alfred Centre for Health Innovation at the National trauma Research Institute in November. Six courses are planned in 2011, targeting the core individual technical competencies for paramedics, nurses, and doctors from many backgrounds, fundamental to specialist clinicians in intensive care medicine.
Click here to register for an ALS provider course at the Alfred.
ACLS Collaborative
Nursing and junior medical staff participate in weekly immersive simulation in ICU, designed to allow junior medical and nursing staff to demonstrate and develop their technical and non-technical skills for safe and effective participation in ICU-based resuscitation teams. Participants learn basic principles of team resuscitation under the guidance of experienced ICU specialist nursing and medical facilitators, who provide structured feedback and formative assessments to develop confidence, communication, and competence amongst participants.
Click here to see resources for simulation participants at the Alfred Intensive Care.
*the attached PDFs about non-technical sckills, human factors, crisis resource management, simaulation
*the Alfred resus guidlines
Crisis Resource Management syllabus
From late 2010, technical and non-technical skills training aims to progress from basic to advanced applications as a new syllabus enters the teaching program for junior medical staff. Didactic lessons, combined with microsim computer based-simulations, hands-on familiarisation workshops with subject matter experts and immersive simulation sessions at the Centre for Health Innovation with Harvard trained faculty aims to take junior medical staff from the general principles for safe and effective team responses to medical crises, to specific advanced practices to manage airway, ventilatory, and circulatory crises.
