Posted: 11/8/2002 3:04:03 PM EDT
| I have to recertify ACLS next week and was wondering what big changes have been made in the new curriculum. Other than the new drugs, amioderone and vasopressin, anything else I need to be aware of? Has the presentation of the course changed much in the last two years? |
| still the same warm fuzzy, nobody fails, waste of time that ACLS has become over the past 5 years. There is a new program on the horizon though, called ACLS for the experienced provider, which will provide new, additional material, rather then waste time explaining protocalls to people who use them everday |
| This is kinda off topic but I didnt want to start a new thread for this. One of the guys I work with just went through his EMT re-cert, while he was going through his airway station he was presented with a concious patient who was hyper-ventilating. He almost failed the station because the new protocal from DHS says we should attempt to insert an OPA and ventilate with a BVM. Ok is it just me or does using an OPA on a concious, breathing patient seem nuts? |
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Quoted: still the same warm fuzzy, nobody fails, waste of time that ACLS has become over the past 5 years. There is a new program on the horizon though, called ACLS for the experienced provider, which will provide new, additional material, rather then waste time explaining protocalls to people who use them everday ACLS for the experienced provider is already out down here. Took it in my last re-cert. |