Advanced Remote Emer­gency Care + Advanced Life Sup­port (AREC + ALS) course

Posted Wednesday 03 July 2024 | CRANAplus

Course dates and times
3-4 September, 08.00 am - 17.00 pm
5 September, 08.00 - 13.00 pm

The Advanced Remote Emer­gency Care + Advanced Life Sup­port (AREC + ALS) course is designed by remote health clin­i­cians for remote health clin­i­cians. The course is con­tex­tu­alised to remote and iso­lated prac­tice and builds on the core prin­ci­ples of ear­ly recog­ni­tion, assess­ment, and man­age­ment of the crit­i­cal­ly unwell or injured patient using a sys­tem­at­ic pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary sur­vey approach. It includes resus­ci­ta­tion and sta­bil­i­sa­tion of the patient accord­ing to pri­or­i­ty, deter­min­ing if a patient’s needs exceed the facil­i­ty’s capa­bil­i­ties, arrang­ing appro­pri­ate defin­i­tive care and ensur­ing that opti­mum care is provided.

The course sup­ports clin­i­cians that work in resource lim­it­ed con­texts and/​or small teams to devel­op con­fi­dence and lead­er­ship qual­i­ties around crit­i­cal think­ing and mak­ing impor­tant clin­i­cal decisions.

CRANAplus encour­ages clin­i­cians to apply the knowl­edge and skills acquired learnt with­in the con­text of the poli­cies of the employ­ing health ser­vice and with­in each indi­vid­u­al’s own scope of practice.

The AREC + ALS course uses a blend­ed learn­ing approach inclu­sive of:

• Online pre-work­shop con­tent that is cur­rent, evi­dence-based, mod­u­larised, and inter­ac­tive so that par­tic­i­pants come to work­shops already hav­ing prac­tised apply­ing ​‘must know’ con­tent to a range of emer­gency presentations.
• An online assess­ment (com­plet­ed pre-course). Requir­ing 90% pass.
• A two-and-a-half-day face-to-face work­shop where par­tic­i­pants can ​‘put the­o­ry into prac­tice’ in hands-on skills sta­tions and clin­i­cal sce­nario prac­tice at an advanced clin­i­cal level.
• A prac­ti­cal sce­nario assess­ment based on recog­nis­ing clin­i­cal dete­ri­o­ra­tion, rapid assess­ment of the patient using the pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary sur­vey approach, resus­ci­ta­tion, and sta­bil­i­sa­tion of the patient accord­ing to priority.