This course will teach hospital clinicians and external first responders the principles of emergency airway management. Through hands-on training, participants will learn basic and advanced airway skills such as bag-mask ventilation, oral and nasal airway insertion, LMA insertion and endotracheal intubation. With high fidelity simulation, participants will develop the skills to handle a variety of difficult airway problems including the need for airway maneuver techniques and rescue ventilation devices.

This training enables the team leader to conduct code blue and stat team scenarios with multidisciplinary teams including nurses, respiratory therapists, family medicine residents, physicians and hospitalists. These scheduled trainings aim to establish leadership, team dynamic and communication standards for Concord Hospital.

This training is designed to bring code teams together for 10 minute code team training, followed by a 10-minute debriefing session. These sessions are held on individual patient care units with the goal of going to each unit quarterly. The emphasis is on discovering process/ system issues, CPR, time to defibrillation, crowd control, identification of team leader and any treatment issues. Participants include floor nurses, special care unit nurses, respiratory therapy, IV team, nursing supervisors and physicians.

This course is designed to teach the American Society of Anesthesiologists guidelines for administration of conscious sedation for non-anesthesia providers. Subject matter covered in this course includes pharmacology of selected sedation medications, recognition of complications, airway management, history taking with an emphasis on identifying high risk patients, management of complications until help arrives, monitoring requirements and how to access help if need be. Participants will include GI physicians, radiologists, cardiologists who perform transesophageal echocardiography exams (TEE) and nurses who work in endoscopy, special procedures and patient care areas where TEE exams are performed.

Advanced cardiac life support is the American Heart Association (AHA) sanctioned course. The content is dictated by the AHA, however, in this course, the human patient simulator will be used for practicing and testing the mock code section of the event.

The following courses will be introduced later in 2008

The emphasis in this course will be the performance of individual roles of trauma team members and how these roles come together to form a high-functioning team. Content will include roles in a trauma situation, leading the team (crew resource management for the team leader), and performance of primary and secondary surveys. Anticipated participants include emergency medicine physicians, nurses, and technicians as well as general surgeons.

A series of four training sessions using simulation. All subject matter has not be fully developed yet but will include caring for patient emergencies and accessing resources to help with patient emergencies. SBAR communication will be part of the scenarios.