American Heart to start new PHP BLS courses

MedicJon88

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Just got an email from my Training Coordinator from AHA. New model of learning was released yesterday by AHA for Prehospital providers. Now there is an online portion + skills time with one of the CPR instructors. scenarios modeled after real field experiences.

Take a look from AHA
goo.gl/ONDH5a

Thoughts?
 
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EpiEMS

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I'm curious to see if the course requires (or tries to do) >2 person CPR. I'd like to see that done in courses more often.
 

NPO

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I'm curious to see if the course requires (or tries to do) >2 person CPR. I'd like to see that done in courses more often.
It says it focuses on 2-6 teams. Send like it will, that's good.
 

socalmedic

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???? 1 asynchronous ventilation every 10 compressions?!?!?!

many areas have already implemented this and are showing great results, trials (which I am trying to find again) show a much smaller decrease in CPP than a pause for ventilation.
 

Altitudes

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I need to renew my CPR cert soon & I saw this as well when I was looking at the AHA website the other night.
 

Drax

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many areas have already implemented this and are showing great results, trials (which I am trying to find again) show a much smaller decrease in CPP than a pause for ventilation.

I work in a county that utilizes it.
 

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I work in a county that utilizes it.

Anecdotally, how is it working? How easy is it to get the timing right? Have you seen any difference in "hands-off" time?
 

chaz90

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I work in a county that utilizes it.

Anecdotally, how is it working? How easy is it to get the timing right? Have you seen any difference in "hands-off" time?

So far, so good. We also use it with manual CPR along with using the LUCAS 2 in continuous compression mode when we get it started. I guess I haven't noticed the timing being particularly difficult. I think our main point has been that ventilations are given a secondary importance to compressions, at least until we get the patient intubated. I don't know the direct comparison between techniques, but I know we've routinely had >90% hands/machine on compression fractions.
 

socalmedic

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Anecdotally, how is it working? How easy is it to get the timing right? Have you seen any difference in "hands-off" time?

we use this in my county, it works great! easier than 30:2 and we have instituted many other changes as well so its hard to say what is causing an increase in survival... but in the past 5 years that we have been actively implementing changes in our resuscitation (read: not AHA guidelines) we have seen a jump from 24% to 46% survival in shockable rhythms. the county adjacent to us has a 5-7% survival rate and they utilize AHA guidelines.
 
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