According to figures from the American Heart Association, someone in the United States dies every minute from heart disease. Because heart conditions are so common, it is important for health-care professionals to understand how to perform both basic and advanced care for patients suffering heart attacks or other acute heart-related illnesses and conditions. Training and certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support, or ACLS, supplies those skills.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support is intended for the use of health-care professionals who encounter cardiac patients, as part of their duties. This includes physicians, nurses, emergency medical technicians, and paramedics. Those professionals work in emergency medicine, cardiology, and acute care. ACLS builds on the basic life support training, provided to most health professionals.
Basic life support attempts to prevent the patient from getting worse. ACLS provides the skills necessary to resuscitate patients and improve their condition. Trainees are taught a variety of skills and diagnostic checks, including airway management; recognition of arrhythmia; the use of IV medications; immediate post-cardiac arrest care.
Most facilities only require ACLS training for staff in ICU and Emergency Rooms. Morrison Community Hospital is proud to announce that in addition to our Emergency Room nurses, our Skilled Care and Acute Care Nursing staff, EMT’s, and Paramedics at MCH have completed the requirements and have obtained their certifications.
Morrison Community Hospital is committed to a continuous training program. Our patients can be assured they are being treated by professionals, equipped with the most current knowledge and technology built on evidenced based practice.