Outcomes of basic versus advanced pre hospital life support in severe pediatric trauma

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Emergency services have invested significant resources to establish Assisted Life Support (ALS) programs. However, it is unclear whether ALS care provides better patient outcomes compared to basic life support (BLS). An evaluation of the current evidence on the benefits of ALS. We searched electronic medical databases to identify articles that directly compared care for ALS and BLS. The following search term combinations were used: Extended life support, basic life support, ALS (non-amyotrophic), BLS, EMS, emergency medical services, extended cardiac life support, emergencies, trauma, thrombolytic therapy, thrombolysis, fibrinolysis, Pre hospital, Pre hospital Discharge (Care or Treatment or Management or Triage), Paramedics, Technicians, Ambulances, Helicopters, HEMS, Mobile Units. Advanced Cardial Life Support, Advanced Cardiocular Life Support (ACLS), is the use of advanced medical procedures, drugs, and techniques to provide acute and urgent care for life-threatening cardiovascular disease causing or causing cardiac arrest. Refers to a set of clinical guidelines for ACLS extends basic life support (BLS) by adding additional medication recommendations and using advanced technology to the basic and effective CPR guidelines in BLS. ACLS is practiced by advanced health care providers such as doctors, some nurses, and paramedics. These providers are typically required to be certified in ACLS care. "ACLS" is almost always semantically interchangeable with the term "advanced life support" (ALS), but when used explicitly, ACLS tends to refer to immediate cardiac care, and ALS. Tends to refer to more specialized resuscitation care such as ECMO and PCI. In the EMS community, "ALS" may refer to advanced care provided by paramedics, and "BLS" may refer to basic care provided by EMTs and EMRs. Where these terms do not refer to cardiovascular treatment. Unexpected cardiopulmonary arrest is common in both the pre hospital setting and inpatient care. Survival after pre hospital arrest improves when bystanders and paramedics receive basic and advanced cardiac life support training. But inside the hospital, the bystanders are the doctors. It is unclear whether life support training by these hospital physicians leads to improved survival. Thus, two matching his 6-month teaching hospital resuscitation attempts before (Period 1) and after (Period 2) the establishment of a mandatory Advanced Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (ACLS) course for primary care physicians. We reviewed the results. It was concluded that survival after in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest was significantly improved if the house officer on the code team had her ACLS training. Advanced Cardial Life Support (ACLS) is high on the list of skills that a doctor, nurse, or other healthcare professional should master. Considered by some to be the next step in Basic Life Support (BLS) training, ACLS provides a structured set of steps to treat and support patients with life-threatening cardiovascular disease. Cardiac arrest survivors, of course, need ACLS-savvy physicians, but so do patients with stroke, coronary syndrome, and other conditions. ACLS trainees are trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), basic life support (BLS), automated external defibrillator (AED) use, airway management, ACLS-related pharmacology, and ECG reading. ACLS training is primarily intended for physicians, nurses, emergency room medical personnel, paramedics, and physician assistants. Knowledge of ACLS is typically a required skill for their position. But ACLS training and certification doesn't stop there. Here are seven key benefits of ACLS certification and how they can benefit your career and life in general.