Advanced Life Support Level 1

The ALS course teaches the knowledge and skills required to:

1. Minimise further risk to the patient through preferred practices following the DRABCD procedure which will ensure best patient outcomes and patient safety
2. Demonstrate effective management of a cardiac arrest by working with a multidisciplinary team in an emergency situation and to demonstrate effective management a cardiac arrest as a lone practitioner in an emergency situation
3. Demonstrate the unitisation of non-technical skills to facilitate strong team leadership and effective team membership
4. An understanding of, and practical competence in both basic life support (including CPR) and advanced life support with a focus on the issues that a general practitioner might encounter
5. Demonstrate a competence in airway management techniques that include basic airway manoeuvres, BVM, oropharyngeal, laryngeal mask and supraglottic airways, oxygen therapy, and more advanced airway manoeuvres such as intubation
6. Demonstrated ability to efficiently use a manual defibrillator and an automated external defibrillator (AED) and the recognition and identification of life-threatening arrhythmias such as VF and VT, and
7. Competence in intravenous access or intraosseous access and have understanding of the administration of drugs in resuscitation, in particular the dose and frequency.