Kirra Surf Life Saving Club

Advanced Resus­ci­ta­tion Tech­niques Certificate

 

The aim of the Advanced Resus­ci­ta­tion Tech­niques Certi­fi­cate course is to develop your skills and knowl­edge to use oxy­gen, air­way man­age­ment devices, and auto­mated exter­nal defib­ril­la­tors dur­ing resus­ci­ta­tion, as well as 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 for the cur­rent season

• Can­di­dates must be a min­i­mum of 15 years old on the date of assessment

 

By the end of this course you can:

• 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

 

You will be assessed for com­pe­tence in the fol­low­ing ways:

• com­ple­tion of the ART workbook

• prac­ti­cal scenarios

• the­ory paper

 

Requal­i­fi­ca­tion

Mem­bers are required to re-qual­ify for this award annu­ally.