Clinical Activities Support - Life Support  

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​ELHT Life Support Training is delivered by the Clinical Activities Support Team.  The department provides standardised and organised training to teach theoretical and practical resuscitation. 
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We support all learners in both their own working environment via in-situ training and also in a classroom environment.
In addition to this, we also carry out life support training for stakeholders in the wider healthcare community.  This ensures safe, personal and effective care for the patient.

​The Life Support Team is responsible for developing and delivering a wide range of training in all aspects of clinical skills, care of the critically ill and resuscitation, be it for new-born, children or adults. 
​​​​The Team is responsible for policy and procedures relating to resuscitation, defibrillators, resuscitation equipment and audit. We respond to cardiac arrest calls when able and are involved in debriefing.  We work together with the Clinical Audit department to collect and analyse data for the Cardiac Arrest audit and Lessons Learnt. 

All of our Team members are ALS Instructors, have both clinical and educational expertise, they continue to work clinically, and work to the current Resuscitation Council (UK) Guidelines.

A structured debrief should be undertaken following all significant events including respiratory and cardiac arrests. The following tool allows interactive, structured team dialogues to take place. It is designed to help the whole team learn from the experience, reflect on what went well, identify team strengths or difficulties and consider ways to improve performance ​
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​Courses offered by the Life Support Team include:
Advanced Life Support (eALS)
Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS)
Advanced Trauma Life Support  (ATLS)
Newborn Life Support (NLS)
Advanced course bookings via AdvancedLifeSupportCourses@elht.nhs.uk
​Life Support Training booked via the Learning Hub:                
Immediate Life Support and Recertification (ILS)
Paediatric Immediate Life Support and Recertification (ILS)
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Basic Life Support Key Trainer Sessions