Basic Life Support
Code
11104
Academic unit
NOVA Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
Department
MC
Credits
0,5
Teacher in charge
Prof. Doutor Pedro Póvoa
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Basic Life Support CU is part of a more comprehensive teaching area called Critically Ill/Emergent Patient transversal to many other disciplines and is characterized by the ability to deal with seriously ill patients with a high risk of death.
Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine are characterized by:
- the promptness and timeliness of response (when the patient needs it);
- the proportionality of interventions (what the patient needs);
- the integrative capacity and teamwork;
- the ability to identify and rank priorities for intervention;
- the human dimension in relation to the sick, the suffering and the end of life seen from the point of view of the patient or family or professionals.
Training in Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine begins with training in Basic Life Support (BLS) as early as the 1st year of the Master degree in Medicine in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the New University of Lisbon.
Situations of cardiac arrest in adults represent a major cause of death and often occur in extra-hospital environment. In Europe, it is estimated that there are approximately 700,000 cardiac arrests per year. The improved survival and quality of life depend on an appropriate initial intervention, properly carried out, initiated by basic life support until the arrival of Emergency Medical Team.
We intend that all Medical students at the Faculty of Medical Sciences have training and qualification in Basic Life Support, felt as an imposition by society itself.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
BLS Mass training
a) introduction to the project - 10min
b) expository session (review of Basic Life Support algorithm) - 20min
c) practice and training with dummies - 90min
d) individual assessment of each candidate - 30 to 40 minutes
e) final plenary session and closure - 10min
(2 groups of 125 students each divided in morning or afternoon sessions)
Seminar - Portuguese Emergency System
- Pre and In-hospital emergency care and post-ressucitation care
Basic Life Support lay person
PROGRAM TYPE (student ratio: Monitor - 6:1)
08:30 to 08:35 Introduction
08:35 to 08:45 Chain of Survival theoretical support
08:45 to 09:10 Risks to the rescuer
Basic Life Support training
09:10 to 09:20 Airway clearance
09:20 to 09:30 Basic Life Support Algorithm
09:30 to 09:50 Break
09:50 to 10:00 Demonstration
10:00 to 12:40 Basic Life Support / practice and training
12:40 to 12:50 Meeting with Monitors
12:50 to 13:00 Closing and evaluation
Bibliography
The reference text is the Handbook of Basic Life Support revised and published by the Resuscitation Council Portuguese
Teaching method
Pedagogic Organization:
Seminars
24/10/2014 Seminar (2h)
Portuguese Emergency System
Classes
19/09/2014 - SBV Mass Training
Basic Life Support Algorithm
20, 21, 27 and 28/11/2014 - SBV lay person
Introduction
Survival Chain
Risks
Training
29/09/2014
BLS Mass Training for 250 students (2 groups of 125)
20, 21, 27 and 28/11/2014
Basic Life Support BLS lay person (in 2 weeks; 2 days (4+4 courses) total 8 courses (each course 4 hrs); 6 instructors/course (relation 6:1);
Evaluation method
The evaluation has 3 components:
- BLS mass training (0-2 points)
- Course BLS-lay person (0-10 points)
- MCQ (0-8 points)
Important to perform the final MCQ test, it is necessary to have the frequency, with positive assessment, in the BLS lay person course.