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Basic Life Support (Adult, Child and Infant (incl AED) - Theory

Basic Life Support (Adult, Child and Infant (incl AED) - Theory

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CPD hours: 2.0

Basic life support provides healthcare workers with potentially lifesaving skills in response to a medical emergency while awaiting advanced interventions. Its main purpose is to preserve or restore life by the early recognition of an emergency, early call for help and management of airway, breathing and circulation with safe use of an automatic external defibrillator (AED) if required. 

This is an annual requirement for healthcare workers in Australia.

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Course Details

Course Information

This course provides the learner an overview of the DRSABCD algorithm when responding to a medical emergency within a healthcare setting, as per the Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation (ANZCOR) guidelines.

It includes recognising and responding to acute deterioration as per Standard 8 of the National Safety and Quality health service, with the goal to prevent cardiac arrest from occurring. When unable to prevent cardiac arrest, this course describes how to perform the steps of the DRSABCD algorithm with real life scenarios to put knowledge into practice.

Course Content

Learners will cover the following content:

- Understand how to recognize signs of a deteriorating patient and a medical emergency
-Identify red flags for preventing cardiac arrest
- Know the requirements for infection control and manual handling in an emergency response
- Use the Basic Life Support algorithm to provide resuscitation (DRSABCD)
- Understand how to perform external cardiac compressions and ventilations in a resuscitation using the ANZCOR guidelines
- Understand how to perform post resuscitation cares and our responsibilities after resuscitation have occurred

Who is this for?

Registered nurses, registered midwives, enrolled nurses, medical officers, allied health professionals