Standard Principles of Resuscitation & Trauma in Sport (SPoRTS) course
€425.00 p/p
2- Days
The responsibility of the pitch-side medical team has never been higher. Health care professionals are under more and more scrutiny in terms of skill maintenance and professional development. The pitch-side clinical team have a duty of care to the athlete/player, along with a responsibility to update and improve their own clinical knowledge and skills. We believe in an integrated approach where Health care professionals from all levels and backgrounds practice and learn together - The SPoRTS course is aimed at those Health Care Professionals who don’t deal with critical care situations every day is designed to practice within a non-threatening learning environment to assess and perform immediate life saving interventions or to prepare the critically unwell athlete/player for safe transfer to hospital.
Course Details
The course is designed to help the candidate recognise the critically ill or injured athlete/player; develop practical skills and co-ordinate a pitch-side team to provide secure and appropriate packaging and to organise safe transfer.
Aims
• To standardise the level of pitch-side Immediate care of Health Care Professionals involved with all sporting events
• To promote confidence when dealing with the potentially critically injured athletes on the field of play
• To provide a forum for sharing of knowledge and CPD within peers
Format
• Key lectures • Skill stations
• Scenarios • Discussions
• Team work
Lectures/Discussions
- Initial Assessment of the injures athlete/player • Spinal injury management principles
- Match day planning
Skills
• Management of an on-field cardiac arrest • Life Threatening injuries
• Packaging & Moving injured players • Head Injuries & Concussion
• Musculo-skeletal injuries & immobilisation • Head Injury assessment
• Airway management • Spinal injuries & clearing the spine
Rapid Practice Scenarios (RPS)
• 15-minute team-based scenarios based on real world settings -
• The RPS are aimed at conslidating the core teachnical and non-technical skills required of the pitch-side medic
Candidate Criteria
Pitch-side Immediate Care course for all Health Care Professionals actively or looking to become involved in sports
Course Format
- Guideline lecture
- Discussions
- Skill stations
- Scenarios
- Working in teams
- Small group work
- Equipment familiarisation
- Competency-based assessment
- Blended learning
- Problem-based learning