(ARTC)

Advanced Resus­ci­ta­tion Tech­niques Certificate

The aim of the Advanced Resus­ci­ta­tion Tech­niques Cert­fi­ci­ate course is to develop your skills and knowl­edge to use oxy­gen, air­way man­age­ment devices, and auto­mated exter­nal defib­ril­la­tors dur­ing resus­ci­ta­tion, and to admin­is­ter oxy­gen to casu­al­ties. You will develop knowl­edge and skills to enable you to demon­strate com­pe­tence in the nation­ally recog­nised unit:

  • Apply advanced resus­ci­ta­tion techniques

Pre­req­ui­sites

  • Can­di­dates must be a finan­cial mem­ber of Mul­laloo SLSC for the cur­rent season
  • Can­di­dates must be a min­i­mum of 15 years old on the date of assessment

Course Out­come

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

  • assess the casu­alty and develop a man­age­ment plan
  • check defib­ril­la­tion equipment
  • attach and oper­ate a defibrillator
  • recover and restore defib­ril­la­tion equipment
  • check resus­ci­ta­tion equipment
  • resus­ci­tate a casu­alty using oxygen
  • use oxy­gen to pro­vide therapy
  • recover and restore oxy­gen equipment
  • main­tain an air­way by:
    — using oropha­ryn­geal air­ways (OP air­ways)
    — using suction

Assess­ment

You will be assessed for com­pe­tence in the fol­low­ing ways:

  • com­ple­tion of the ART workbook
  • prac­ti­cal scenarios
  • the­ory paper

Requal­i­fi­ca­tion

Mem­bers are required to requal­ify this award annu­ally. Requal­i­fi­ca­tions take around 2–3 hours to com­plete and are con­ducted at the club.