Leicester Cardiac Surgery Advanced Life Support (CALS)

Taught by expert faculty:

Hannah Conway - Course director

Gary Lau - Course director

This course is aimed at nurses, trainees, consultants, advanced practitioners and surgical practitioners in intensive care and theatres.  We hope to empower all practitioners to act with confidence as a team while caring for the post-operative cardiac surgical patient.

For more information about CALS please follow this weblink: https://www.csu-als.com/

Topics covered:

• EACTS cardiac arrest protocols and applying them to your clinical areas

• Practical sessions using the CALS protocol

• Management of cardiothoracic emergencies

• Workshops: chest opening and internal defibrillation, epicardial pacing, CALS scenarios

• Human factors in cardiac surgery