Following the successful British led Neurosurgical Skills workshop in Ghent 2005, a Continuing Medical Education (CME) event occurring in conjunction with the annual summer CIOMR summer meeting scheduled for Viterbo 2006 was planned. It was allow clinicians to reaffirm some military medicine skills, focusing on the relevant military topic: Resuscitations.
Instructors were :
Maj. Sunil Sookram MD, FRCPC, Assistant Clinical Professor, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta, Medical Director Edmonton Heartsafe Program, Medical Director Edmonton Emergency Response Department
Maj. Roger Scott RN, EMT-P, Master's candidate Nurse Practitioner Program University of Alberta
Course Outline
The Advanced Cardiac Life Support - Experienced Provider (ACLS-EP) course is a Heart and Stroke Foundation recognized and developed course. It was designed as an alternate way of recertifying practioners in ACLS. It has been run in North America for over 4 years after being developed following the ACLS guidelines of 2000 being introduced. It has been well received as a viable recertification program and is delivered to various health care providers, including pre-hospital care providers.
a. 2 hr ACLS refresher and review of new 2006 Emergency Cardiac Care Guidelines to be done thru small facilitated group discussions on the current ACLS algorithms through case based discussions); and
b. 1 hr sessions known as the Experienced Provider component where learners are lead through up to 4 cases, each focusing on the different types of Special Resuscitations. This second component focuses on immediate management of particular patient presentations and the periarrest state, immediate management issues to prevent the development of cardiac arrest and the management of cardiac arrest should it occur. The cases can vary according to the student population and interest.
The faculty has chosen the following scenarios:
i. Trauma/Environmental (Lightening/Electrical Injury);
ii. Asthma;
ii. Toxcicology;
iv. Acute Coronary Syndromes.
LCol Jacques Lalande
