OH ALS - Out of Hospital Advanced Life Support (RCUK)

OH-ALS has evolved from the established ALS programme, redesigned to address the realities and demands of pre-hospital care.

In the two days, you’ll broaden your understanding of delivering advanced life support outside of a hospital setting with lectures and skill stations. You’ll enhance practical skills and non-technical skills with simulations and workshops.

During the course, you will develop the knowledge and skills required to:

• recognise and manage the deteriorating patient using a structured ABCDE approach
• deliver standardised ALS in adults and adaptations in special circumstances
• manage a cardiac arrest by working with a multidisciplinary team in an emergency situation
• become an effective and confident team member and leader by utilising non-technical skills.

Before your course, you will be registered on the RCUK Learning Management System (LMS). Here, you can access course modules, a pre-course multiple choice question (MCQ) paper.

Candidates will receive their course manual one month before the course. Candidates are expected to read the manual in preparation for the course and submit a completed pre-course MCQ paper before the course begins.

Please note, manuals cannot be posted internationally, but you will recieve an electronic link to all of the information (books will be provided on the day of the course in these instances). 

All applicants must hold a professional healthcare qualification or be in training for a professional healthcare qualification. Medical students in their final year of training can be accepted as candidates if this is an established local arrangement.