Course: Immediate Life Support (ILS) Training - Level 3

This course has been written to introduce its reader to the requirements and competency surrounding Immediate Life Support. It is not designed to act as a means by which competency in undertaking these competencies are assessed. It aims to introduce the reader to the required competency surrounding the use of baseline interventions in a variety of life-threatening situations.

Course Contents:

• The Care and Quality Commission (CQC)
• Basic Support Aims
• Legal obligations
• Survival chain
• Recognising the Signs of a Patient who is Deteriorating
• ABCDE - the Approach to the Patient who is Deteriorating
• Airway Obstruction / Resuscitation Guidelines (Resuscitation Council (UK))
• Recognising Breathing Problems
• Recognising Anaphylaxis
• Circulation Problems
• Acute Cardiac Syndromes
• Alert Verbal Pain Unresponsive (AVPU) Scale
• The Glasgow Coma Scale
• Recovery position
• Exposure
• Confirming Cardiac Arrest
• CPR on an Adult Casualty and When it is time to stop CPR
• Automatic External Defibrillator
• Advanced Life Support
• European Resuscitation Top Messages