COURSE MASTER SYLLABUS
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Academic Division: Health and Public Service
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Department: Respiratory Care
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Course Number and Title: RESP 2320 Advanced Life Support Procedures
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Course Coordinator/Department Chair: Robert Slabodnick, M.Ed., RRT-NPS/Robert
Slabodnick, M.Ed., RRT-NPS
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Credit Hours: 1
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Prerequisites: None
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Syllabus Effective: August 2012
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Textbook(s) Title:
(3 Laboratory hours)
Neonatal Resuscitation
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Author: American Heart Association
Year: 2006
Edition: 5th
ISBN #978-1-58110-187-4
Advance Cardiac Life Support, Provider Manual
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Author: American Heart Association
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Year: 2006
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Edition: 2006
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ISBN # 978-0-87943-496-0
Pediatric Advance Life Support, Provider manual
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Author: American Heart Association
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Year: 2006
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Edition: 2006
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ISBN # 0-87493-528-8
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Workbook(s) and/or Lab Manual:
None
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Course Description:
This course consists of the American Heart Association’s Advance Cardiac Life Support
(ACLS), Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS), and Neonatal Resuscitation Program
(NRP). When the student successfully completes this course they will be issued
certification cards for each discipline from the America Heart Association. The course is
taught by certified AHA instructors. The laboratory hours are arranged. The course will
be offered during the term as three separate modules, each two days (approximately 16
hours) dates and times to be announced.
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Core Learning Outcomes
Core Learning Outcomes
Communication – Written
Communication – Speech
Culture and Community
Critical Thinking
Computer Literacy
Computation
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Assessments - - How it is met & When it
is met
Written examination and a direct
laboratory demonstration check-off in each
specialty course by the end of the term.
Written examination
Written examination and a direct
laboratory demonstration check-off in each
specialty course by the end of the term.
Written examination and a direct
laboratory demonstration check-off in each
specialty course by the end of the term.
Course Outcomes and Assessment Methods:
Outcomes
1. ACLS: The student will understand
concepts in: recognizing and initiating
early management of peri-arrest
conditions, managing cardiac arrest,
identifying and treating ischemic chest
pain and coronary syndromes, recognizing
other life threatening clinical situations and
providing initial care, ACSL algorithms,
Assessments – How it is met & When it is
met
Written examination produced by the AHA at
the end of the ACLS course
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and effective resuscitation team dynamics
2. The student will successfully perform an
ACLS “Mega code”
3. PALS: The student will be able to
recognize and treat infants and children at
risk for cardiopulmonary arrest, understand
systematic approach to assessment,
effective respiratory management,
defibrillation and synchronized
cardioversion, intraosseous access and
fluid bolus administration, and effective
resuscitation team dynamics.
4. The student will successfully perform a
PALS “Mega code”
5. NRP: By completion of the course the
student will understand resuscitation
principles associated with the preterm
infant: steps in resuscitation, resuscitation
of preterm infant, chest compressions,
positive pressure ventilation, endotracheal
intubation, medications and dosage
associated in resuscitation, special
considerations, ethics and care of end of
life issues, and effective resuscitation team
dynamics.
6. The student will successfully perform a
NRP “Mega code”
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Laboratory demonstration and check-off at the
end of the ACLS course
Written examination produced by the AHA at
the end of the PALS course
Laboratory demonstration and check-off at the
end of the PALS course
Written examination produced by the AHA at
the end of the NRP course
Laboratory demonstration and check-off at the
end of the NRP course
Course Topical Outline:
I. ACLS
A. Systematic Approach to BLS and ACLS
a. BLS survey
b. ACLS Secondary Survey
B. Effective Resuscitation team dynamics
a. Roles of the team leader
b. Elements of Effective Resuscitation Team Dynamic
C. ACLS Core Cases
a. Respiratory arrest case
b. VF treated with CPR case
c. VF/pulseless VT case
d. Asystole case
e. Acute coronary syndrome case
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f.
g.
h.
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Bradycardia case
Unstable tachycardia case
Stable tachycardia case
Acute stroke case
II. PALS
A. Pediatric Assessment
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d.
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General assessment
Primary assessment
Life-threatening conditions
Secondary assessment
Assessment of circulatory abnormalities
B. Recognition of respiratory distress and failure
a. Impairment of oxygenation and ventilation in respiratory problems
b. Physiology of breathing in respiratory problems
c. Categorization of respiratory problems and severity
d. Classification of respiratory problems by types
C. Management of respiratory distress
a. Initial management of respiratory distress
b. Management of upper airway obstruction
c. Specific management recommendations for upper airway obstruction etiology
d. Management of lower airway obstruction
e. Specific management recommendations for lower airway obstruction etiology
f. Management of lung tissue disease
g. Specific management recommendations for lung tissue disease by etiology
h. Management of disordered control of breathing
D. Recognition of shock
a. Physiology of shock
b. Categorization of shock by severity
c. Categorization of shock by type
a. Hypovolemic shock
b. Distributive shock
c. Septic shock
d. Anaphylactic shock
e. Neurogenic shock
f. Cardiogenic shock
g. Obstructive shock
E. Management of shock
a. Goals of shock management
b. Fundamentals
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c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
General management of shock
Advance management of shock
Fluid therapy
Glucose
Management of specific categories of shock
a. Hypovolemic shock
b. Distributive shock
c. Septic shock
d. Anaphylactic shock
e. Neurogenic shock
f. Cardiogenic shock
g. Obstructive shock
F. Recognition and management of brady-arrhythmias and tachy-arrhythmias
a. Recognition of brady-arrhythmias
b. Management of brady arrhythmias: pediatric bradycardia with
pulse algorithm
c. Tachycardia
d. Sinus tachycardia
e. Supraventricular tachycardia
f. Comparison of ST and SVT
g. Atrial flutter
h. Ventricular tachycardia
i. Management of tachy-arrhythmias
j. Emergency interventions
k. Pharmacology therapy
l. Pediatric tachycardia with adequate perfusion algorithm
m. Pediatric tachycardia with pulses and poor perfusion algorithm
G. Recognition and management of cardiac arrest
a. Presentations of cardiac arrest
b. Causes of cardiac arrest
c. Recognition of cardiac arrest
d. Management of cardiac arrest
e. Basic life support
f. Pediatric advance life support in cardiac arrest
g. Pediatric pulseless arrest algorithm
h. Pediatric cardiac arrest special circumstances
i. Social issues and ethics in resuscitation
j. Predictors of outcomes after cardiac arrest
H. Post-resuscitation management
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a. Respiratory system, Cardiovascular system, PALS post-resuscitation of shock algorithm,
Administration and maintenance of fluids, neurological system, renal system, gastrointestinal
system, hematologic system
b. post resuscitation transport
c. mode of transport and transport team composition
d. transport checklist
I. Pharmacology
a. Adenosine, albumin, albuterol, alprostadil, Amiodarone,
atropine, calcium chloride, dexamethasone, dextrose,
dipenhydramine, dobutamine, epinephrine, fluroemide,
hydrocortisone, inamrinone, ipratropium bromide, lidocaine,
magnesium sulfate, methypresnisone, milrinone, naloxone,
nitroglycerin, norepinephrine, oxygen, procainamide, sodium
bicarbonate, sodium nitroprusside, terbutaline sulfate
III. NRP
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Overview and principles of resuscitation
Initial steps in resuscitation
Use of resuscitation devices for positive pressure ventilation
Chest compressions
Endotracheal intubation
Medications and dosage used in resuscitation
Special considerations
Resuscitation of babies born preterm
Ethics and care at the end of life
Mega code
Course Assignment:
Laboratory discussion
Lab experiments and demonstrations
Mega Code performance check-off examination
Written examination
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Recommended Grading Scale:
100-95
94-92
91-89
88-86
85-83
82-80
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AB+
B
BC+
79-77
76-74
73-71
70-68
67-65
64-Below
C
CD+
D
DF
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