Advanced Cardiac Life Support

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Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) includes a series of algorithmic medical procedures and techniques designed for the urgent treatment of cardiac arrest, stroke and similar life threatening cardiac emergencies. The course expands upon basic life support with more advanced skills such as Electrocardiogram (ECG) rhythm interpretation for core ACLS rhythms, airway management and appropriate adjuncts, ACLS drugs and pharmacology, practical application of ACLS rhythms and drugs, and effective high-performance team skills for Basic Life Support and ACLS. Many hospitals and other medical facilities require this advanced training for anyone who may work with cardiac patients.

This course is nationally accredited in joint partnership with the Postgraduate Institution of Medicine. Upon course completion, you will receive 8 CEU/CME credits.

Because good Basic Life Support (BLS) skills are foundational to ACLS skills, a BLS certification is strongly encouraged, or in most cases, a pre-requisite for taking the ACLS certification. In addition, participants who enter the ProACLS course are required to have already obtained the basic knowledge and skills in Advanced Cardiac Life Support.

Occupations That Use This Course

  • Health Care Providers
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Paramedics
  • Advanced EMTs
  • Surgeons
  • Anesthesiologists
  • Dentists

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Course Time Information

Total course time includes 3 hours and 21 minutes of video training as well as knowledge reviews, final test, remedial help and reviewing downloaded material.

Course Curriculum

  1. Course Introduction
    1. ProACLS Philosophy
  2. Course Overview and Objectives
  3. Resuscitation Team Dynamics
    1. Overview and Team Roles & Responsibilities
    2. Effective Communication
  4. Patient Assessment
    1. BLS Assessment
    2. High Quality CPR
    3. ACLS Primary Assessment- ABCDE
    4. ACLS Secondary Assessment
      1. Overview
      2. H's and T's
  5. ACLS Cardiac Rhythms
    1. Overview
      1. Cardiac Conduction System
      2. ECG Interpretation
    2. Normal Sinus Rhythm
    3. Atrial Fibrillation
    4. Atrial Flutter
    5. Bradycardia
    6. Narrow Complex Tachycardia
    7. 1st degree block
    8. 2nd degree mobitz 1
    9. 2nd degree mobitz 2
    10. 3rd degree complete block
    11. Asystole (lecture)
    12. Pulseless electrical activity (PEA)
    13. Wide Complex Ventricular tachycardia (VT)
    14. Ventricular fibrillation (VF)
  6. ACLS Pharmacology
    1. Overview
    2. Adenosine
    3. Amiodarone
    4. Aspirin
    5. Atropine Sulfate
    6. Dopamine
    7. Epinephrine
    8. Fibrinolytic Agents
    9. Lidocaine
    10. Magnesium Sulfate
    11. Morphine Sulfate
    12. Nitroglycerin
    13. Oxygen  
    14. Procainamide
  7. Case Studies
    1. Respiratory Arrest Case
    2. CPR Case
    3. AED Case
    4. Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) Case
    5. Acute Stroke Case
    6. Pulseless Arrest: VF/ Pulseless VT Case
    7. Pulseless Arrest: Pulseless Electrical Activity (PEA) Case
    8. Asystole Case
    9. Bradycardia Case
    10. Tachycardia Case
    11. Megacode Case
  8. Post-Cardiac Arrest Care
    1. Optimization of cardiopulmonary function and perfusion of vital organs after ROSC

Student Manual

What People are Saying

“Clear precise and to the point. Enough repetition to make your sequence of treatment become routine”

- Anna, Doctor (DO/MD) from VA

“Excellent course!! Learned more out of this online ACLS certification course than the "live ACLS certification course," was a tad bit time consuming only because I have been out of the hospital setting for years as well as have not recertified in several years, yet what was very appreciative is that I could go back and redo/start the scenarios over which was a major blessing, for I feel like I learned more this way. Also, the instructor was absolutely wonderful!!”

- Julie, Family Nurse Practitioner from CA