Our new professionally manufactured sternotomy manikin with 3D MRI reconstructed heart and lungs is now available to units interested in conducting their own training. To see more details on this manikin click here

Our full course handbook is now available to download or buy in paperback (also provided free on attending a course) Click here to view.

The new EACTS European Guidelines for Resuscitation are now publically available here or you can download the guideline directly here

In 2003 there was a cardiac arrest on a patient 4 hours postcardiac surgery. Over the following four hours his chest was re-opened three times and eventually the patient was re-grafted in his ICU bed on bypass.

Many of the nursing and junior medical staff reported they felt disorganised and of little help to the situation and would have performed much better if they had a defined and well practised role. In response to this we created the Cardiothoracic Advanced Life Support Course.

We have devised a set of protocols that address the patient suffering a cardiac arrest and all common serious complications in ICU or on the ward. Our aim was to create a common language for all cardiothoracic practitioners.

This protocol has grown and has just been accepted as the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery's official protocol and has now been published in the European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

As we teach a safe protocol to follow for all situations, the Cardiothoracic Advanced Life Support Course is appropriate for clinicians whatever their background.

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