Course Description
The BLS Healthcare Provider Course teaches CPR skills for helping victims of all ages (including doing ventilation with a barrier device, a bag-mask device, and oxygen); use of an automated external defibrillator (AED); and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (FBAO). It's intended for participants who provide heath care to patients in a wide variety of settings, including in-hospital and out-of-hospital. For certified or noncertified, licensed or nonlicensed healthcare professionals.

Course Length: 6-8 hours

The course will be offered at Sinai Hospital. Residents take the course first as PGY I and then are required to renew every 2 years.  Residents may also choose to renew online at http://www.cprassociate.com/blscprcourseinfo.php or similar AHA accredited sites

Course Description
The ACLS Provider Course provides the knowledge and skills needed to evaluate and manage the first 10 minutes of an adult ventricular fibrillation/ventricular tachycardia (VF/VT) arrest. Providers are expected to learn to manage 10 core ACLS cases: a respiratory emergency, four  types of cardiac arrest (simple VF/VT, complex VF/VT, PEA and asystole), four types of prearrest emergencies (bradychardia, stable tachycardia, unstable tachycardia and acute coronary syndromes) and stroke.

Course Length: 8-16 hours

Student Materials:

•  ECC Handbook, Strongly Recommended
•  ACLS Provider Manual, Required  or  ACLS Text, Reference

Written/Skills Exam: Required for completion card

The course will be offered at Sinai Hospital. Residents take the course first as PGY I and then are required to renew every 2 years.  Residents may also choose to renew online at http://www.cprassociate.com/blscprcourseinfo.php or similar AHA accredited sites

Program:

The program is CME activity developed by the ACS Committee on Trauma. The goal is to teach one safe, reliable method for assessing and initially managing the trauma patient.  Students learn an organized approach for evaluation & management of seriously injured patients The course functions to set a foundation of common knowledge for all members of the trauma team. Gained knowledge is applicable in both large urban centers and small rural emergency departments

Objectives:

• Assess the patient's condition rapidly and accurately
• Resuscitate and stabilize the patient according to priority
• Determine if the patient's needs exceed a facility's capabilities
• Arrange appropriately for the patient's definitive care
• Ensure that optimum care is provided

The course will be offered at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. Residents take the course first as PGY I and then are required to renew every 4 years. 

Overview

Dr. Lenworth Jacobs, of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Hartford Hospital's Trauma Program developed the Advanced Trauma Operative Management^� Course. It was established in 1998 out of a demonstrated need for the interactive exchange of knowledge regarding operative procedures in the management of trauma.

The course consists of six 30-minute lectures followed by a 3-hour lab session where the student will manage fourteen different injuries. The lab session is unique in that there is a 1:1 student to instructor ratio. At the conclusion of the lab, the students must complete post-course evaluations and surveys via the Internet.

Objectives

The student will explain and describe the proper operative technique for dealing with trauma injury. The student must identify traumatic injuries and develop a management plan in order to surgically repair the injuries. At the completion of this course the student will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Increased self-efficacy in the management of traumatic injuries
• Increased knowledge in the management of penetrating injuries
• Ability to successfully and safely perform all operative procedures presented in the course

The course will be offered at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. Residents take the course as PGY III or IV.

Program:

The use of focused ultrasonography has now become an extension of the physical examination of the trauma patient. Performed in the trauma room by properly trained and credentialed staff, it allows the timely diagnosis of potentially life-threatening hemorrhage and is a decision-making tool to help determine the need for transfer to the operating room, CT scanner or angiography suite.

Objectives:

• Assess the patient's condition rapidly and accurately
• Understand the physical basics of Ultrasonography and tissue interactions
• Understand the indications and limitations of the test
• Perform the standardized examination

The course will be offered at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. Residents take the course as PGY III.