UCD’s Centre for Immediate Care Services provides courses that offer the knowledge and skills needed to deal with acute cardiac and trauma emergencies. Participants include general practitioners, practice nurses, ambulance personnel and other healthcare professionals. The multi-disciplinary teaching faculty includes general practitioners, nurses, paramedics and advanced paramedics. Full course schedule below, followed by course content information.

Completion of BLS within the past 2 years is a pre-requisite for Immediate Care and Anaphylaxis Courses

COURSE		DATE	VENUE	COMMENTS
Immediate Care	Cardiac	WED 15 Sep	Galway	Places available
Immediate Care	Trauma	THU 16 Sep	Galway	Places available
BLS	Basic Life Support	WED 15 Sep	UCD Belfield	Places available
Immediate Care	Racecourse Trauma	SAT 25 Sep	Kildare	COURSE FULL
Immediate Care	Cardiac	TUE 5 Oct	UCD Belfield	Places available
Immediate Care	Trauma	TUE 12 Oct	UCD Belfield	Places available
Immediate Care	Pre-Hospital Thrombolysis	SAT 9 Oct	Castlebar	COURSE FULL
BLS	Basic Life Support	WED 13 Oct	UCD Belfield	Places available
Anaphylaxis for Helathcare Providers		THU 14 OCT	UCD Belfield	Places available
Immediate Care	Cardiac	Wed 27 Oct	Tullamore	Places available
Immediate Care	Trauma	Thu 28 Oct	Tullamore	Places available
Immediate Care	Cardiac	Wed 3 Nov	Donegal	Places available
Immediate Care	Trauma	Thu 4 Nov	Donegal	Places available
Diving Medicine		Sat 6 Nov	UCD Belfield	Call 01 716 6666 for info
Immediate Care	Paediatrics	Sat 20 Nov	UCD Belfield	Places available
Immediate Care	Cardiac	Sat 27 Nov	UCD Belfield	Places available

COURSE FEES

Immediate Care Cardiac: €350 | Immediate Care Trauma €350
Immediate Care Cardiac and Trauma Course booked together: €600
Courses run 9am to 5pm

GP's participating in the MERIT project may qualify for reduced course fees

Basic LIfe Support: €120 (6pm-10pm)
Anaphylaxis for Healthcare Providers: €150 (6pm-9pm)

Group courses arranged on request (minimum 6 for BLS or Anaphylaxis – minimum 16 for Immediate Care)

 

 

CICS courses are accredited:
ICGP - Irish College of General Practitioners
PHECC - Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council
IHF - Irish Heart Foundation

Course Administrator: Ms Kathryn Duignan
Tel 01 716 6668 / 6640 | e-mail: kathryn.duignan@ucd.ie

Immediate Care Cardiac Course

The aim of the course is to provide participants with the clinical competence to manage life-threatening cardiac related emergencies in a pre-hospital setting. The course content is based on refreshing the participant’s knowledge of the chain of survival, the recognition and management of life threatening arrhythmias, the roles of individual team members in managing cardiac arrest and the administration of anti-arrhythmic and other cardiac medications. The course will focus on practical skills such as: - Management of life threatening emergencies

• Integration of critical procedures in a simulated emergency situation
• Basic and advanced airway management and oxygen therapy
• Use of Automated Extenal Defibrillator

• Dealing with head injuries and the multi-system trauma victim
• Primary and secondary patient surveys
• Spinal Immobilisation
• Airway management in a trauma patient
• Fluid resuscitation
• Close teamwork with the emergency services
  
  The course qualifies for 14 CAS credits per day | ICGP Study leave (4 credits per day)

Management of Anphylaxis in Primary Care

Since its introduction in early 2008, this course has attracted participants from a broad range of specialties including general practice, public health and the emergency services. A typica course would comprise the following:
18:45 Welcome and registration / Introduction and MCQ
19:00 PowerPoint Lecture
20:00 Discussion
20:15 Scenarios – 3 rotations stations x 30 mins
Station 1:
(a) Management of Baby/Infant Allergic / Anaphylactic Reactions
(b) Management of Child Allergic / Anaphylactic Reactions
Station 2:
(a) Management of Adult Allergic Reaction
(b) Management of Adult Anaphylactic Reaction
Station 3:
(a) Drug calculations and preparation
(b) Auto-injector

22:00 MCQ review and close

SAMPLE SCENARIOS

Scenario One: 40-year-old man post H1N1 vaccination
Scenario Two: 30 year old lady know allergy to penicillin
Scenario Three: 7-year-old girl, peanut allergy.
Scenario Four: 3 year old boy, allergy unknown

The course is approved by the ICGP for study leave/CME/CAS and by An Bord Altranais Cateogry 1 Post Registration approval

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