This course is recognised by the American Heart Association, accredited by the Irish Heart Foundation, and is essential for many health-care professionals.

It is a two day course, at present the proposed dates for this course are:

Next Course: 18th/19th Aug, 15th/16th Sept and 13th/14th Oct

Download the application form for upcoming courses here

The Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course presents the skills and didactic information needed to handle a cardiac arrest, events that may lead to a cardiac arrest, and events that follow a cardiac arrest. The core of this course is the management of the first few minutes of a witnessed, adult,ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest. Other essentials of the course are contained in the respiratory arrest, pulseless and refractory ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation treated with an AED,pulseless electricial activity, asystole, acute coronary syndromes, bradycardia, stable tachycardia, unstable tachycardia and acute stroke.

This course is validated by the American Heart Association through the Irish Heart Foundation. Persons who successfully complete the knowledge and skills evaluations in accordance with the curriculum of this AHA course are eligible to receive the ACLS Course completion card.

Guest speakers-experts in the fields of cardiology/resuscitation hold seminars during the course to supplement and consolidate practical skills acquired during ACLS training.

The intended audience for this course includes emergency personnel in intensive care or critical care departments and emergency medical providers such as physicians, nurses, emergency technicians, paramedics, respiratory therapists, and other professionals whose jobs require completion of a written evaluation and successful skill performance. Course participants must have first completed Basic Life Support Course.

Hibernian Healthcare's courses take two full days, and are conducted in excellent facilities.Hibernian Healthcare acls courses are taught in a case-based learning environment through small group work, with fully qualified, enthusiastic acls instructors. Courses are offered nationwide and can be conducted onsite. Places in the course must be booked at least 3 weeks in advance since AHA requests receipt of course material by participants 2 weeks before.

Address any questions to acls@hibernianhealth.com.