Immediate Life Support (ILS) Training - Level 3

This course has been written to introduce its reader to the requirements and competency surrounding Immediate Life Support. It is not designed to act as a means by which competency in undertaking these competencies are assessed. It aims to introduce the reader to the required competency surrounding the use of baseline interventions in a variety of life-threatening situations.

This course includes the following topics:
• Legal obligations
• Survival chain
• Recognising the signs of a patient who is deteriorating
• ABCDE – the approach to the patient who is deteriorating
• Airway obstruction
• Recognising breathing problems
• Recognising Anaphylaxis
• Circulation problems
• Alert Verbal Pain Unresponsive (AVPU) scale
• The Glasgow Coma Scale
• Exposure
• The algorithm for use in advanced life support
• European Resuscitation Top Messages
• Confirming Cardiac Arrest
• Resuscitation Guidelines (Resuscitation Council (UK)
• Ventilation and Airway
• When it is time to stop CPR
• Recovery position

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