Description
The Advanced Resuscitation and Life Support Course (ARLS)
EMCORE Sydney 2025 Pre-Conference Workshop.
The Advanced Resuscitaton and Life Support course is approved for 9.25 ACEM CPD hours
The ARLS course takes resuscitation training to the cutting edge of modern education. We use online, mobile and blended-learning education, with hands on, face to face teaching in a way that revolutionises clinical teaching and learning.
FACE to FACE Training
ARLS face-to-face training comprises teaching and practice in High-Quality CPR, the Primary Survey and the DRS ABCD approach, airway management to the level of LMA insertion and endotracheal intubation, BVM ventilation, and safe defibrillation using the COACHED mnemonic.
| 0800-0815 | Registration and welcome | |
| 0815-0830 | HQ-CPR session 1 | |
| 0830-0900 | ARLS course philosophy and program; Sudden Cardiac Death in Australia | |
| 0900-0945 | HQ-CPR session 2 | |
| 0945-1045 | Group 1 | Group 2 |
| Systematic patient assessment | Airway / ventilation management | |
| Airway / ventilation management | Systematic patient assessment | |
| 1045-1100 | Break | |
| 1100-1115 | Using POCUS in hypotension and cardiac arrest | |
| 1115-1130 | Human factors – team member, team leader, communications | |
| 1130-1230 | USS techniques practical | USS techniques practical |
| 1230-1315 | Lunch | |
| 1315-1415 | Group 1 | Group 2 |
| Safe defibrillation / COACHRED | Safe defibrillation / COACHRED | |
| 1415-1500 | Group 1 | Group 2 |
| Simulation scenario 1 | Simulation scenario 4 | |
| Simulation scenario 2 | Simulation scenario 5 | |
| Simulation scenario 3 | Simulation scenario 6 | |
| 1500-1515 | Team performance debrief | |
| 1515-1545 | Break | |
| 1600-1645 | Group 1 | Group 2 |
| Simulation scenario 4 | Simulation scenario 1 | |
| Simulation scenario 5 | Simulation scenario 2 | |
| Simulation scenario 6 | Simulation scenario 3 | |
| 1645-1700 | Team performance debrief | |
| 1700-1730 | Feedback, discussion and evaluation | |
| 1730 | Close | |
Course Facilitators
Prof Paul Middleton
A/Prof Peter Kas
Dr Will Davies
Dr Adam Michael
Video Pre-learning: 16 modules (approximately 4 hours)
Recognition of Serious Illness (ROSI)
ROSI 1 – Causes and Cardiovascular Disease a
ROSI 2 – Causes and Cardiovascular Disease b
ROSI 3 – Normal Physiology and Compensation
ROSI 4 – Early Recognition
ROSI 5 – The 4Hs and 4Ts
ROSI 6 – The systematic approach
ROSI 7 – The cardiac arrest rhythms
ROSI 8 – The ALS algorithm
Point-Of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) skills
POCUS 1 – Ultrasound in cardiac arrest
POCUS 2 – Hands-on USS techniques
Clinical Skills
Clinical Skills 1 – DRS ABCD approach
Clinical Skills 2 – Airway
Clinical Skills 3 – Breathing
Clinical Skills 4 – High-Quality CPR
Clinical Skills 5 – Defibrillation with an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
Clinical Skills 6 – Defibrillation with a manual defibrillator
Post-learning Spaced Education
Spaced Education breaks information down into discrete packages and then applies learning principles which increase the uptake of knowledge and dramatically improve long-term retention.
The ARLS Spaced Education questions form a post-learning summative assessment, as they include questions on all ROSI modules, clinical skills and cardiac arrest management. Questions are sent, using a methodology developed at Harvard University to automate the emailing of questions, over a period of three months following the ARLS face-to- face training day; these questions are delivered to the candidate’s email account and accessed either by smartphone, tablet or desktop computer.
