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Provide basic life support using an automated external defibrillator in an ambulance context
4 Credits 4 Level
Purpose People credited with this unit standard are able to:
˗ assess and secure the scene of a cardiac arrest in an ambulance context;
˗ assess a patient and maintain airway and breathing in an
˗ ambulance context; demonstrate knowledge of and maintain patient circulation
˗ in an ambulance context; and demonstrate knowledge of and carry out automated external defibrillation in an ambulance context.
Classification
Available grade
Entry information
Emergency Services > Ambulance
Achieved
Critical health and safety prerequisites
Prerequisite: Unit 6400, Manage first aid in emergency situations , Unit 6401, Provide first aid , and Unit 6402, Provide resuscitation level 2 ; or Unit 23406, Provide first aid for trauma and medical emergency situations , or demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
1 Competency in this unit standard will be demonstrated in a simulated resuscitation situation.
2 Definitions
Ambulance context – situations where emergency care is delivered in a variety of pre-hospital environments. Pre-hospital environments refer to any situation in which people require medical assistance outside of a controlled medical environment, such as a medical centre. Pre-hospital environments include situations both in and away from an ambulance vehicle.
Best practice
– for the purposes of this standard is a clinical technique or methodology that has proven to be most effective at delivering a desired outcome and is actively promoted across the ambulance and/or emergency care sector.
Clinical procedures – the written procedures particular to each ambulance service and endorsed by Ambulance New Zealand.
The Skills Organisation
SSB Code 100401
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Standing orders – written instructions issued by a medical practitioner that authorise individuals engaged in the delivery of health services to supply and administer certain medicines without a prescription in circumstances specified in the instruction.
3 References
Health and Disability Commissioner (Code of Health and Disability Services
Consumers’ Rights) Regulations 1996; and all subsequent amendments and replacements.
4 Range
Performance in relation to the elements in this unit standard is to comply with current clinical procedures and/or standing orders and/or current best practice; and be appropriate for the patient’s condition.
Outcome 1
Assess and secure the scene of a cardiac arrest in an ambulance context.
Evidence requirements
1.1 Environmental hazards are identified and managed to ensure the safety of the scene is maintained.
Range hazards may include but are not limited to
– heat, cold, electricity, water, fire, pathogens; the scene may include but is not limited to – rescuers, bystanders, patients.
Outcome 2
Assess a patient and maintain airway and breathing in an ambulance context.
Evidence requirements
2.1 Patient condition is assessed in an ambulance context.
Range airway, breathing.
2.2 Patient airway is opened and maintained in an ambulance context.
Range may include but is not limited to
– triple airway manoeuvre, modified jaw thrust, oropharyngeal airway devices, nasopharyngeal airway, laryngeal mask airway device, suctioning apparatus, cross finger technique, removal of foreign body, and positioning of the patient.
2.3 Effective ventilation in a non-breathing patient is performed.
Range may include but is not limited to – chest rise, fogging of the mask, auscultation.
The Skills Organisation
SSB Code 100401
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Alterations in cardiopulmonary resuscitation to maintain cerebral perfusion for specific patients are described.
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Outcome 3
Demonstrate knowledge of and maintain patient circulation in an ambulance context.
Evidence requirements
3.1 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is performed to maintain cerebral perfusion in an ambulance context.
3.2
Range may include but is not limited to
– pregnant patients, children, infants, morbidly obese patients; evidence of two required.
Outcome 4
Demonstrate knowledge of and carry out automated external defibrillation in an ambulance context.
Evidence requirements
4.1 Situations where defibrillation is likely to be useful are identified in an ambulance context.
4.2 Automated External Defibrillator is used in an ambulance context.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process Version Date Last Date for Assessment
Registration 1 22 August 2008 31 December 2019
Review 2 21 April 2016 31 December 2019
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference 0003
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do
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Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
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SSB Code 100401
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Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
The Skills Organisation
SSB Code 100401
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New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2020 New Zealand Qualifications Aut