Duration
16h Pr
Number of credits
| Advanced Master in Emergency Medicine (360 ECTS) | 1 crédit | |||
| Advanced Master in Paediatrics | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The EPALS course: management of cardiac arrest in children, before, during and after
This is a 2-day course, labeled ERC and therefore non-modifiable, which allows you to obtain a certificate whose duration is 3 years, with recertification modules which are planned (see ERC website)
This course is given by ERC approved trainers (and/or in training), in teams of 2 (or 3) most often from ULiège, our partner CHU or external partners. Trainers can come from all over Europe.
The students (or participants) are divided into "colored" groups of 6 and follow various theoretical but above all practical workshops which explore the whole issue of cardiac arrest in children, its etiologies, its prevention, its management in charge and certain arrhythmias which can contribute to the destabilization of a young patient.
This is a dynamic, progressive course with feedback, based on team simulation It is aimed at health professionals who have or will have to manage cardiac arrest in children and is included in certain specialization masters
In addition, participants from other health disciplines can complete the groups.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the training, each student will be able to:
- perform good quality chest compressions in children
- carry out effective ventilation and check it
- carry out an assessment of the patient according to the ABCDE technique
- know how to manage the airway in a non-invasive way and understand the conditions for invasive management and the need to monitor exhaled CO2, understand the importance of ventilation in children
- understand the interest of ultrasound and its use in peri-arrest situations
- know and apply the basics of teamwork and more particularly soft skills
- carry out a management of a standardized case of a patient presenting a cardiac arrest
- know the risks of degradation of a young, hospitalized patient
- properly prepare a young patient after successful resuscitation
- the ECG in children: the principles of arrhythmias
- know the principles of blood gas analysis, in 5 steps
- carry out a transmission of relevant information to another team according to the principle of i-SBAR
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
only EPBLS
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The EPALS course consists of several learning methods:
- the individual study
- individual exercising
- team-to-team
- observation
- imitation
- the explanation
- situation
- simulation
- feedback
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Blended learning
Additional information:
this is present, however, an online course (after registration) is available on the ERC-CoSy website: https://www.erc.edu/courses
however, you must register with an email address that will be requested when you arrive for the course at ULiège. Only this email address will be used by the ERC to inform you or to issue you your certificate
Recommended or required readings
the EPALS book (ERC)
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
A pre-test (MCQ) is available in e-learning on the CoSy website.
It will allow you to assess yourself.
This pre-test is not used for your assessment
- some workshops are evaluated
- continuous evaluation with regular feedback
All of your evaluation data is then examined by a jury (faculty) made up of trainers and a Course Director (ERC recognized).
Your final result (and your on-line certificate) will be known to you at the end of the course.
You may be offered to become a potential instructor, in which case and if you accept it, additional training (GIC, cf. ERC) will be imposed on you.
Work placement(s)
none
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
you do not have to register on the ERC website to apply for an ALS course if you are part of one of the specialisation masters concerned
you will be notified directly by email of your enrollee in a course session by the course center
the simulation centre (CARE simulation: www.caresimulation.uliege.be) is a course centre recognised by the ERC and the courses are provided there most of the time (see however with the anesthesia secretariat for some trainings)