Course overview
Why do I need this course?
- Comply with professional obligations for basic life support
- Protect patient safety through prompt intervention
- Align with the Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF)
- Respond quickly and effectively in a cardiac or respiratory emergency
- Gain confidence to initiate CPR
What will I learn?
- Signs of cardiorespiratory arrest
- How to initiate CPR
- Airway management and the use of lung ventilations
- Principles of DNACPR
- Individual roles and responsibilities in emergency situations
- Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) and local treatment escalation plans (TEPs)
- Appropriate emergency response for choking
Who is this course for?
- All clinical healthcare professionals (as part of statutory training requirements)
- All health and social care staff who work with children and infants
- Anyone who works with the general public
Part of the CSTF
The Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF) is a framework created by Skills for Health and sets out minimum learning outcomes, frequency of refresher training and links to relevant legislation or expert guidance.
It can be used by any healthcare employer in the UK including NHS, independent and voluntary providers.
All our CSTF-aligned courses can be purchased as part of a bundle here.
Learn more about the CSTF on our website, or read the Frequently Asked Questions.
Course details
Understand your role and responsibility with this interactive course looking at emergency response and interventions in basic life support for children.
Interactive learning helps learners understand both legal and practical knowledge on policy, emergency response, chest compressions, airway management, and the use of lung ventilations and AEDs. Underlying all this knowledge is the importance of the individual’s roles and responsibilities in their response.
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Identify the signs of clinical deterioration in children.
- Discuss how to respond where cardiac arrest is suspected in a child.
- Describe basic airway management.
- Describe how to initiate and maintain effective rescue breaths/lung ventilations.
- Describe how to initiate and maintain effective chest compressions.
- Describe the appropriate emergency response for choking in children.
- Explain what DNACPR is and its importance.
- Explain why someone might have a DNACPR in place and describe the decisions around DNACPR for children.
- Explain the importance of undertaking resuscitation interventions within the limits of your personal capabilities and training.
- Identify your individual role and responsibilities in emergency situations.
- Explain how to report and record details of an emergency event accurately.
This course meets the learning outcomes for Resuscitation - Level 2 – Paediatric Basic Life Support in the Skills for Health Core Skills Mandatory Training Framework.
Subject 10: Resuscitation, Level 2 Paediatric Basic Life Support
The learner will:
- understand national guidelines and local Resuscitation policies and procedures
- know how to recognise and respond to patients with clinical deterioration or cardiorespiratory arrest, escalating care in accordance with local policy
- be able to initiate an appropriate emergency response, which may include management of choking and the use of the recovery position, in accordance with current Resuscitation Council UK guidelines
- be able to provide basic airway management i.e. ensure an open airway
- be able to initiate and maintain effective lung ventilations in accordance with current Resuscitation Council UK guidelines
- be able to initiate and maintain effective chest compressions in accordance with current Resuscitation Council UK guidelines
- understand their individual role and responsibilities in responding to persons in emergency situations
- understand their individual responsibilities in reporting and recording details of an emergency event accurately
- understand the importance of undertaking any resuscitation interventions within the limits of their personal capabilities and context of any previous training received
- know how they should apply the local Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Policy / anticipatory care decision within clinical context.
- Course Length: 110 mins
