Development of the Interdisciplinary and Interprofessional Course Concept "Advanced Critical Illness Life Support"

Mark Michael; Henning Biermann; Ingmar Gröning; Martin Pin; Philipp Kümpers; Bernhard Kumle; Michael Bernhard

doi:10.3389/fmed.2022.939187

Development of the Interdisciplinary and Interprofessional Course Concept "Advanced Critical Illness Life Support"

Front Med (Lausanne). 2022 Jul 14:9:939187. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.939187. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Mark Michael¹, Henning Biermann², Ingmar Gröning³, Martin Pin⁴, Philipp Kümpers⁵, Bernhard Kumle⁶, Michael Bernhard¹

Affiliations

¹ Emergency Department, University Hospital, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
² Department for Acute and Emergency Medicine, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
³ Emergency Department, Krankenhaus Maria-Hilf, Krefeld, Germany.
⁴ Interdisciplinary Emergency Department, Florence-Nightingale-Krankenhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany.
⁵ Department of Medicine D, Division of General Internal and Emergency Medicine, Nephrology, Hypertension and Rheumatology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.
⁶ Emergency Department, Schwarzwald-Baar Klinikum, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany.

Abstract

The Advanced Critical Illness Life Support (ACiLS) course was developed on behalf of the German Society for Interdisciplinary Emergency and Acute Medicine (DGINA). The goal of the ACiLS course is to provide a nationally recognized and certified life support course that teaches medical professionals the key principles of initial care of critically ill patients in the emergency department, including the (PR_E-)AUD²IT-algorithm. It is designed for interdisciplinary and multi-professional staff in the resuscitation room to optimize patient safety and outcome. ACiLS includes a new blended learning concept with a theoretical part as comprehensive e-learning and a two-day practical part with strong focus on team training in scenarios and workshops. The course format was conceived to balance best teaching practices within the limited instructional time and resources available. This article describes the development of the ACiLS course and provides an overview of its future implementation.

Keywords: course concept; critically ill patients; emergency department; emergency medicine; resuscitation room.