Safeguard CPR offers the ACLS Renewal course for current ACLS providers who need to renew their ACLS skills and ACLS Provider course completion card. The ACLS Renewal course builds on the foundation of lifesaving Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare providers skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR.

• Science of Resuscitation: A high level overview of the entire class, and discussion of updated guidelines.
• Systematic Approach: A 3-step process that includes General Impression, Primary Assessment, and Secondary Assessment
• High Quality BLS (adult only)
• Airway Management: Basic and Advanced airway management skills including the use of Waveform Capnography.
• Technology Review: Learning how to use monitor functions such as: defibrillation, synchronized cardioversion, and pacing.
• Team Dynamics: Contrasting bad and good team behaviors, and discussing priorities of team members.
• Overview of ACLS algorithms
• Overview of ECG rhythms
• Megacode: Each student is given a scenario and required to function as a team leader

• Pass the Adult High-Quality BLS Skills Test
• Demonstrate competency in learning station skills
• Pass the Megacode test
• Pass the open-resource exam with a minimum score of 84%

An open-resource exam allows students the ability to use available resources, such as the ECC Handbook and Provider Manual, posters, algorithms, etc, to process information analytically but also to think independently and creatively with curriculum content.

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