SUMMARY

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) is a video-based, Instructor-led, advanced course, builds on the foundation of basic life support (BLS) skills. It emphasizes the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR and takes healthcare provider training to the next level ─ highlighting the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes.

• Systematic approach
• High-quality BLS
• Airway management
• Rhythm recognition
• Defibrillation
• Intravenous (IV)/intraosseous (IO) access (information only)
• Use of medications
• Cardioversion
• Transcutaneous pacing
• Team dynamics

Target audience: Healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies.

Find more course dates via Heart & Stroke BC

Vancouver General Hospital

ACLS Provider

For the following 2019 dates, please register by emailing acls.iemea@gmail.com.
Nov 6, 2020
Nov 7, 2020

ACLS Update
Please register with Cathie Roth at acls.iemea@gmail.com.
October 6, 2020
November 6, 2020

SUMMARY

Learn to assess and manage critically ill children during the first hours in the emergency department. Participants are recommended to have previously completed at least one PALS or APLS Course successfully.

Learning objective:

• Assess and manage critically-ill children during the first hours in the emergency department
• Detect an imminently toxic child and institute treatment without delay

Skills Learned:

• Assisted and mechanical ventilation
• advanced airway
• vascular access (intraosseous and central)
• chemical/electrical cardioversion

Target audience: physicians who are routinely involved in the care of critically ill or injured children, including emergency room physicians, pediatricians, and senior emergency medicine and pediatric trainees.

Upcoming:

Pre-Conference Course: APLS Course (Simulator-Mediated Advanced Pediatric Life Support) will be offered on Thu May 2, 2019.

SUMMARY

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) is an international course that teaches participants the basic skills necessary for timely management of traumatic injury. The course includes didactic and practical sessions.

Learning Objectives

Participants will learn to identify injuries associated with major trauma, management of skills required for early resuscitation, and treatment of injured patients.

Skills

• Assess the patient’s condition rapidly and accurately
• Resuscitate and stabilize the patient according to priority
• Determine if the patient’s needs exceed a facility’s capacity
• Arrange appropriately for the patient’s inter-hospital transfer (who, what, when, and how)
• Assure that optimum care is provided and maintained throughout the evaluation, resuscitation, or transfer processes

Target audience

Physicians practicing emergency care

Register

For courses held at Vancouver General Hospital please email TraumaEduc@vch.ca to register.

For courses held in New Westminster please email atlsfha@gmail.com to register.

For more information on lower mainland courses visit www.vghtrauma.vch.ca/education/advanced-life-support/.

For additional course listings in British Columbia, please visit the American College of Surgeons’ (ACS) website, or click here to access a PDF of the courses available from January through November 2019. To access a list of the ATLS Coordinators located in Canada, please click here.

SUMMARY

The AIME course has been providing valued and practical hands-on airway management learning experiences for clinicians around the world for over 14 years. AIME educators are experienced (and entertaining) clinical instructors who understand the varied work environments of practicing clinicians. Whether you are a physician working in a large, high volume centre or a small remote setting, AIME will provide a practical approach for airway management in emergencies.

Learning Objectives:

• Be more confident and comfortable in making acute care airway management decisions.
• Have acquired a practical staged approach to airway management.
• Be able to choose the most appropriate method of airway management based on a variety of patient presentations.
• Make appropriate choices in the use of pharmacologic agents used to facilitate airway management.
• Know when and how to use various tools and adjuncts for managing the difficult airway.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care.

For information on registration: www.aimeairway.ca

Upcoming in BC:

CAEP AIME @ St. Paul’s Emergency Update, Whistler, BC

Register via UBC CPD 

SUMMARY

Sep 26 (Sat) | 0820–1630 PDT
Target audience: family physicians, pediatricians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, allied health professionals, residents & students.
Overview: The robust agenda captures the most common allergy and immunology issues in a clinical setting. Participants will hear from leaders in the field on such topics as food allergy, drug allergy, immunodeficiency, and asthma.
Up to 6.5 Mainpro+/MOC Section 1

SUMMARY

Sep 22 (Tue) | 0800 – 0900 PDT |

Target audience: All healthcare professionals

Agenda: The speakers will provide an overview of the newest available handheld ultrasound devices in British Columbia and discuss the differences between the various devices.

Up to 1.0 Mainpro+/MOC Section 1 credits

SUMMARY

This NEW interactive online course explores a variety of topics related to recreational and medical cannabis. Through clinical tips, resources, and reflective case study, learners review best practices in:

• Approaching patient conversations and education
• Screening and treating cannabis use disorder (CUD)
• Safe authorization of medical cannabis

Target audience: Family physicians, specialists, nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care providers.
Up to 1.5 Mainpro+/MOC Section 3 credits

SUMMARY

Our unique and award winning series of 6-half day short snapper style focused CPD now delivered online only. We are excited to introduce our next series of lectures and incredible speakers.

Please save the dates so you don’t miss these next CME on the Run sessions! Each session will only take up 3.5 hours on a Friday afternoon!

Oct 2, 2020 | Gynecology/Urology
Nov 20, 2020 | Diagnostics/Radiology
Jan 29, 2021 | Therapeutics
Mar 5, 2021 | Ophthalmology/ENT
May 7, 2021 | Geriatrics
Jun 4, 2021 | Internal Medicine

SUMMARY

The CRISP course is a two-day, high-acuity, high volume critical care training simulation program, designed to allow physicians and other emergency practitioners to acquire, review, and practice their skills in essential life-saving procedures.

The course travels to rural communities and provides a day of procedure training, procedural skills development and ‘actuation’, i.e. putting skills into action, followed by a day of in situ simulation training led by a team of experienced faculty. Participants are placed in interprofessional learning teams to encourage teamwork and communication. The main objective of the course is to bring high-quality simulation and procedural training to rural hospitals and provide an opportunity for emergency teams to practice management of infrequently encountered emergent scenarios.

Target audience: physicians, nurses and other practitioners who participate in patient care in a rural hospital.

For information on registration, please email: cpd@bcemergencynetwork.ca

SUMMARY

August 17 | 1400 PT | Password: Quality2020

The emergence of COVID-19 in BC forced intensive care units across the province to quickly plan for and adapt to an anticipated surge in cases. By overcoming traditional silos and utilizing a provincially coordinated response to this pandemic, mortality related to COVID-19 in critically ill patients in BC is dramatically lower (15.4%1) than other global studies have shown (up to 26% in some jurisdictions1). The development of a new network to facilitate rapid clinical sharing and the creation of a COVID-19 monitoring tool to guide decision-making are two strategic approaches that have contributed to improved clinical outcomes.

In this webinar you will learn how:

• Provincial collaboration improved the critical care response to COVID-19
• A common purpose helped overcome traditional silos and establish new partnerships
• Open sharing of information improved clinical practice and the availability of resources

SUMMARY

August 24 | 1300 PT | Password: Quality2020

What happens when a pandemic meets an existing public health emergency? Challenges faced by people who use substances in BC have been amplified in the context of COVID-19. The BC Centre on Substance Use, in collaboration with the provincial government, regional partners and community stakeholders, developed an approach to support continuity of care for those engaged in treatment, including interim clinical guidance outlining innovative strategies to mitigate risks during dual public health emergencies.

Speakers from different areas of the health care system will share several insights around the impacts of COVID-19 in their respective areas of care, including:

• Challenges that emerged as a result of the pandemic
• How any changes in the system impacted the quality of care
• What improvements to care were realized
• What improvements can be sustained and widespread

SUMMARY

Sep 15 (Mon) | 1830–2000 PDT
Target Audience: Physicians and other health care providers.
Agenda: An expert panel of highly experienced primary care and public health experts will answer your COVID-19 questions and share their experiences and best practices in managing the COVID-19 pandemic in children and youth.
Panel:

• Ashley Miller (Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist)
• Hayley Broker (Family Physician)
• Jeremy Church (School District Administrator)
• Linda Uyeda (Family Physician)
• Mark Lysyshyn (Deputy Chief Medical Health Officer)
• Matt Chow (Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist)
• Rosalind Catchpole (Mood and Anxiety Disorders Clinic at BCCH)
• Wilma Arruda (Pediatrician)

Ask Questions: We encourage you to submit your questions early via slido: Go to https://www.sli.do/ and enter the event ID #: Sept-COVID. Or go directly to https://app.sli.do/event/ifpauv1e.

Up to 1.5 Mainpro+/MOC Section 1 credits
Course Webpage  |  Registration Form

SUMMARY

UBC Dept of Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds

DEM Grounds Rounds
Sept. 9, 2020 @ 9:00am
Online

Speakers

Leslie Bonshor, Executive Director
Aboriginal Health, Vancouver Coastal Health

Dr. David Tu, Primary Care Co-Lead & Board Member
Kilala Lelum Health Centre
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Family Practice, UBC

Dr. Michael Dumont, Medical Director
Lu’ma Medical Centre
Clinical Instructor
Department of Family Practice, UBC

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Dr. Jim Christenson, Head, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine

Co-Facilitators

Dr. Kendall Ho, Lead, Digital Emergency Medicine &
Executive Director, Inter-Cultural Online Health Network

Dr. Dan Kalla, Department of Emergency Medicine, SPH

SUMMARY

Learn to use ultrasound to detect global cardiac activity, pericardial effusions, AAA’s, intra-abdominal hemorrhage and intra-uterine pregnancies.

The course is unique in that it has continually evolved as the instructor team gained insight into the way beginners learn this skill. Numerous techniques were developed to help the learner acquire a basic understanding of ultrasound image generation and interpretation, making the EDE Course the most effective teaching vehicle for this modality.

Although the EDE Course is occasionally offered as part of a conference, it was mainly designed to come to you if there is enough interest in your centre. There are a number of “off-the-shelf” courses; however, groups can also design their own custom course.

Target Audience: physicians practicing emergency care

For information on registration: www.edecourse.com

SUMMARY

The EDTU course is designed to provide physicians with a strong foundation in emergency ultrasound. The course emphasizes hands-on practical instruction to maximize participant learning. This is achieved with one-on-one bedside teaching on live models.

The course is a two-day program and will accommodate twenty learners. It is designed to facilitate the completion of most (if not all) of the required 50 supervised scans in each of the four areas (aorta, cardiac, abdomen, and pelvis). Target audience: Physicians practicing emergency care.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the basics of ultrasound physics, image generation and interpretation, and image artifact.
• Understand the different types of probes
• Complete most (if not all) of required 50 scans
• Generate limited focused images for all the primary applications of EDTU
• Understand the difference between EDTU and a formal ultrasound
• Understand how EDTU is to be used in the clinical assessment of patients and clinical algorithms for patient care.
• Identify anatomic structures on an ultrasound image that are necessary to interpret the primary examinations
• Understand the importance of establishing and maintaining a quality assurance program at your local ED.
• Learn the psychomotor skills necessary to generate accurate ultrasound images
• Understand the indications for and limitations of EDTU.

Information on registration.

SUMMARY

The Hands-On Ultrasound Education (HOUSE) program gives rural physicians the training and confidence to integrate point-of-care ultrasound into their practice. This customizable, traveling, hands-on ultrasound training program was created for rural physicians.

By providing education that is customized for each community, the program meets the needs of learners with a wide range of pre-existing skills. HOUSE delivers learning in a relaxed and fun environment with an instructor to student ratio of 1:2. To learn more visit: www.house.ubccpd.ca

We offer a large menu of options: choose from acute care, obstetrics, and internal medicine indications, or mix and match.

About the Hands-On Ultrasound Education Program

SUMMARY

The IH Rural Mobile Simulation Program was designed to provide instruction on emergency medicine concepts and to provide an opportunity for rural providers of emergency care to practice potentially life-saving skills. Like emergency medicine, this program is designed to be flexible to varying levels of experience, knowledge, and background. The course facilitators create a non-threatening, informal environment in which emergency care scenarios can be practiced.

With the high‐fidelity human patient simulators, we are able to create close to real life experiences in sites’ own emergency or trauma room, utilizing their supplies, equipment, and staff while building or enhancing relationships within the inter-professional teams.

Skills:

Focus: to enhance medical skills and knowledge, teamwork, and communication by placing more emphasis on learning that involves real‐time assessment and feedback.

• Simulation can be used to improve clinical decision‐making and psychomotor skills (e.g., airway management, trauma, resuscitation) within a multi‐disciplinary environment
• Simulation reduces medical errors through improved teamwork
• Scenarios can be tailored to meet the needs of the learners
• Training can be conducted in a setting that minimizes time pressures present in the clinical environment

Target audience: physicians, RNs, LPNs, RTs, Lab, BCAS, Students, Residents, Managers, and Administrators.

Information on registration.

SUMMARY

August 19 | 1200 PT | Password: QCafe2020

Our next Quality Café webinar, Moving the Dial in Patient Safety: The Path from Risk Management and Quality Improvement to Safety II, Resilience and Restorative Practices in Health Care, will explore new frontiers in safety science that may reduce harm to patients, families, communities and health care providers after serious adverse events.

You can make this a truly dynamic learning experience by coming prepared with questions, doubts and stories, and ready to have your microphone un-muted to participate in a lively dialogue.

By participating in this webinar, you will be able to:

• Discuss the shifting paradigms for learning about patient safety in the 21st century
• Identify situations that may harm patients, families and other partners in the course of receiving care

SUMMARY

These ultrasound modules are intended to provide a further understanding of some of the ultrasound scans performed bedside in the emergency department. This is a pilot project to teach basic ultrasound concepts in an online interactive format.

We want you to think critically about how you might manage a patient with these images generated. The modules are not intended to replace an ultrasound course, nor replace image generation skills. Hands-on practice along with formal instruction is also required.

Modules include:

• Aorta ultrasound
• Ocular ultrasound
• FAST ultrasound
• Lung ultrasound
• Cardiac ultrasound

REGISTER HERE

SUMMARY

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) is a video-based, instructor-led, advanced course, that focuses on a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation and team dynamics to improve the quality of care provided to seriously ill or injured children, resulting in improved outcomes.

This course is designed for healthcare providers who either direct or participate in the management of respiratory and/or cardiovascular emergencies and cardiopulmonary arrest in pediatric patients, as well as others who need a PALS course completion card for job or other requirements.

Skills:

• Perform high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) per Heart and Stroke
• Foundation basic life support (BLS) recommendations
• Differentiate between patients who do and do not require immediate intervention
• Recognize cardiopulmonary arrest early and begin CPR within 10 seconds of recognition
• Apply team dynamics
• Differentiate between respiratory distress and failure
• Perform early interventions for respiratory distress and failure
• Differentiate between compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock
• Perform early interventions for the treatment of shock
• Differentiate between unstable and stable patients with arrhythmias
• Describe clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
• Implement post–cardiac arrest management

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care

Find more course dates via Heart & Stroke BC

1-day PALS Renewal Course registration via BC Children’s Hospital

SUMMARY

The PATS course is a simulation-based course that has been developed by local trauma experts at BC Children’s Hospital to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the management of trauma in pediatric patients.

PATS makes use of online modules, simulation cases as well as skill stations to provide healthcare providers with high-yield and up-to-date information in a safe learning environment. Local BCCH protocols and resources are also reviewed and emphasized. This one-day course includes the use of expert role-modelling vignettes and hands-on practice. Each participant will be allocated to an interdisciplinary team consisting of physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists.

As there are no didactic lectures provided during the course, prerequisite online modules must be completed in advance. Access the course materials by logging in to the PHSA Learning Hub at http://learninghub.phsa.ca and search for “PATS” or “Pediatric Advanced Trauma Simulation”.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care, ED and ICU RNs, and RTs.

For information on registration, please email: jallaire@cw.bc.ca

SUMMARY

This course is designed to allow physicians to acquire and review their skills in essential life-saving emergency procedures including:

• Needle Cricothyrotomy and transtracheal jet ventilation
• Open Cricothyrotomy
• Needle Thoracostomy
• Chest Tube insertion
• Intraosseous Vascular access
• Pericardiocentesis
• Central line Vascular access, landmark technique
• Ultrasound-guided Central line vascular access
• Crisis Resource Management and cognitive error mitigation

PEMP combines online modules with an intensive immersive hands-on simulation experience that allows for realistic and clinically relevant practice of the procedures followed by integration of the procedures into the overall care of a simulated critically ill child.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care.

SUMMARY

Recruitment and Retention of Physicians in Northern BC
Virtual Summit Meeting

Please RSVP to Tanya Stella (Tanya.stella@unbc.ca) by October 1, 2020

Earlier this year, UBC’s Northern Medical program, Northern Health and RCCbc sponsored a project to review recruitment and retention of physicians in Northern BC and identify best practices from across the country. Dr. Tony Taylor met with a wide range of stakeholders (eg. Northern Health, School Districts, UBC faculty and students, UBC Faculty of Medicine leadership, UNBC faculty, students, community leaders, rural family physicians etc.) with the end goal of producing a document detailing the journey of high school students to practicing physicians and describing best practices that create an enabling environment for recruiting and retaining physicians in Northern BC and to rural, remote and indigenous communities.

SUMMARY

With expanding access to Provincial eHealth viewers, private practice medical clinics in British Columbia are expected to implement appropriate security practices to ensure private patient information and the medical practice are protected. Designed in partnership with the Doctors Technology Office, this introductory course supports medical clinics to improve their current security practices. Learn how to create a culture of security, better train your staff, limit the risk of a cyberattack, and protect the privacy of patient information through this interactive one-hour online module.

Learn more.

SUMMARY

A one-day simulation-based course involving the team-based resuscitation of critically injured trauma patients. Principles of crisis resource management and resuscitation management priorities and skills will be highlighted, as well as reviewing latest evidence and clinical practice guidelines, taking into account available resources and regional trauma guidelines. Knowledge of ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) based principles are essential and this course will build on the basics of ATLS.

Target Audience: Urban or Rural Emergency physicians, emergency RN’s and RT’s involved in the initial management of severe trauma patients.

For information on registration, please email: cpd@bcemergencynetwork.ca

SUMMARY

The SEMP course allows physicians providing emergency care to acquire, review and practice their skill in essential life-saving emergency procedures including:

• • Needle cricothyrotomy and transtracheal jet ventilation
  • Open cricothyrotomy
  • Needle thoracostomy
  • Guide-wire chest tube placement
  • Intraosseous vascular access in adults
  • Intraosseous vascular access in children
  • Pericardiocentesis
  • Central line vascular access, landmark technique
  • Ultrasound-guided central line vascular access

• Crisis resource management and strategies to reduce cognitive errors.

Course Format: Hands-on simulation course using highly-realistic task-trainers and human patient simulators combined with pre-course online modules. 24 participants maximum.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care; also open to interprofessional teams of physicians, nurses, paramedics, and respiratory therapists

For information on registration: https://ubccpd.ca/course/EMP2019

SUMMARY

BC Sepsis Network Webinar – The BC Provincial ED Sepsis Dashboard is Now Live!

October 07, 2020 | 1200 PT | Zoom

The need to collect site-specific and meaningful sepsis data to influence clinical outcomes and quality improvement during COVID-19 is more important than ever. The BC Provincial ED Sepsis Dashboard is now live throughout the province and provides clinical and administrative staff the ability to directly access real-time ED sepsis processes and clinical outcomes and use these indicators to inform quality improvement work. While COVID-19 requires all potentially septic patients to be isolated early, it is paramount that we ensure all septic patients, COVID-19 or otherwise, are receiving optimal care.

In this webinar, Dr Steve Ahkioon and Dr. David Sweet will guide us through the ins and outs of the ED-ICU sepsis dashboard; from how and what information is collected, to how you can apply findings towards improving clinical outcomes.

Objectives
1. Understand what information is collected and presented on the Provincial ED Sepsis Dashboard.
2. Efficiently navigate the Provincial ED Sepsis Dashboard from your site.
3. How can the Provincial ED Sepsis Dashboard be utilized to improve care at your site.

Presenters
Dr. Dave Sweet
Critical Care Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital
Clinical Lead for Sepsis, BC Patient Safety & Quality Council
Clinical Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

Dr. Steve Ahkioon, Ph.D., M.Eng.(Cantab), PMP
Critical Care Database Regional Advisor, Vancouver General Hospital

SUMMARY

The use of bedside ultrasound by clinicians to guide invasive emergency and critical care procedures has been proven to improve success and reduce complications and is rapidly becoming established as the standard of care. UGEMP provides an opportunity to acquire and maintain the skills required to perform such procedures using Ultrasound-guidance.

Human models will allow for demonstration of human surface landmarks, real-time ultrasound image generation, and human ultrasound anatomy. Ultrasoundable task-trainers that simulate the tactile feel of human tissue will allow for the repeated practice of invasive procedures without harming the human models. The instructors will demonstrate the procedure and will supervise the learners’ performance of the procedures in small groups. Formative evaluation in the form of immediate feedback provided by the instructor will help the learners to monitor their progress and guide their learning.

Skills:

• Thoracentesis
• Chest Tube Placement, open and Seldinger techniques
• Central venous line placement
• Peripheral intravenous line placement
• Pericardiocentesis
• Abscess drainage
• Subcutaneous Foreign Body localization and removal
• Arthrocentesis
• Lumbar Puncture
• Paracentesis

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care

Information on registration.

SUMMARY

An Online iCON-VCH Indigenous Health Rounds

Led by Dr. Kendall Ho @KHo8888

September 22nd 12:00pm – 1:30pm PDT

Note: You can create a free Learning Hub account to register.