AUSTRALIAN RESUSCITATION COUNCIL      

Advanced Life Support
Level 2

Darwin, NT
August 15-16, 2026

DEVELOP THE KNOWLEDGE TO RECOGNISE DETERIORATION EARLY  || BUILD THE SKILLS TO RESPOND WITH PURPOSE AND PRECISION  || CONFIDENTLY CONTRIBUTE IN ANY  EMERGENCY RESPONSE  || LEAD COMPLEX RESUSCITATION WITH CONFIDENCE, CLARITY AND CONTROL

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Course Description

Advanced Life Support Level 2 (ALS2) is a two-day ARC-accredited program designed for clinicians who lead or regularly manage cardiac arrest and critical deterioration.

The course integrates advanced lectures, focused skills stations, and progressive cardiac arrest simulation teaching (CASTeach), culminating in structured assessment through simulation and MCQ testing.

Across two intensive days, candidates refine clinical reasoning, rhythm interpretation, advanced airway integration, post-resuscitation care planning, and high-performance team leadership in evolving resuscitation scenarios.

This is not simply introductory ALS, it is performance-based resuscitation leadership development.
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Course Information

Course Date:

August 15-16, 2026

Course Location:

Venue T.B.C.

Course Times:

Our ALS1 courses follow a structured timetable to ensure optimal learning and assessment time. The times below are indicative, however please refer to the official course timetable provided prior to your course for confirmed details.

Course Times:

While our ALS2 courses follow a structured timetable to maximise learning, practice time, and assessment opportunities., it is critical you confirm times with the timetable that you will be provided.
The times below are indicative of what to expect:
0745: Registration
0810: Teaching Commences
1730: Course Conclusion

Pre-Course Preparation:

Completion of the assigned ARC pre-reading is essential prior to attendance, including a pre-course MCQ. Access instructions will be provided following enrolment confirmation.

Course Content

Lecture: Causes & Prevention of Cardiorespiratory Arrest

This session introduces a structured approach to recognising and responding to the deteriorating patient before cardiac arrest occurs.

Participants will explore:
  • The physiological basis of deterioration
  • Early warning signs and red flags
  • A systematic ABCDE assessment framework
  • Escalation pathways and timely intervention


The focus is on preventing arrest through early recognition, prioritisation, and decisive action.

Skills Station: Application of the ABCDE Approach

This hands-on station provides guided practice in performing a structured ABCDE assessment in simulated clinical scenarios.

The focus includes:
  • Performing rapid, prioritised assessments
  • Identifying life-threatening findings
  • Initiating immediate interventions
  • Communicating findings clearly using structured language


Emphasis is placed on clinical reasoning, clear communication, and safe escalation.

Lecture: Cardiac Causes of Arrest

This session explores the underlying cardiac pathologies that precipitate cardiac arrest, with a strong focus on acute coronary syndromes (ACS).

Participants will:
  • Review the spectrum of ACS: unstable angina, NSTEMI and STEMI
  • Understand plaque rupture, thrombus formation and coronary occlusion
  • Interpret ECG patterns associated with myocardial infarction
  • Apply the ABCDE approach in suspected ACS
  • Initiate appropriate immediate management including antiplatelet therapy and reperfusion strategies


The session emphasises early recognition, risk stratification and rapid activation of definitive treatment pathways.

Skills Station: Rhythm Recognition

This workshop develops confidence in structured ECG rhythm interpretation.

Participants will:
  • Use the 6-stage approach to rhythm analysis
  • Determine rate, regularity and QRS width
  • Identify atrial activity and AV relationships
  • Recognise ECG patterns of acute myocardial infarction
  • Correlate ECG findings with clinical context


This station builds the analytical foundation required for safe peri-arrest management.

Skills Station: Peri-Arrest Arrhythmias

This station integrates bradycardia and tachycardia management within the ALS clinical framework.

Participants will:
  • Assess tachycardias by regularity and QRS width
  • Apply the Tachycardia Algorithm (with pulse)
  • Perform synchronised cardioversion safely
  • Recognise symptomatic bradycardia and degrees of heart block
  • Initiate appropriate pharmacological treatment
  • Practise transcutaneous pacing


The emphasis is on recognising instability early and intervening decisively.

Lecture: The ARC ALS Algorithm

This session explores the management of cardiac arrest following the ARC ALS Algorithm.

Participants will explore:
  • The rationale behind key algorithm steps
  • Shockable and non-shockable rhythms
  • Medication timing and priorities
  • The reversible causes of cardiac arrest


The session connects physiology to protocol, ensuring participants understand not just what to do, but the why.

Skills Station: Associated Resuscitation Skills

This station builds upon the technical skills required to support high-performance resuscitation teams.

The focus includes:
  • Advanced airway positioning, manoeuvres and adjuncts
  • Supraglottic airway insertion
  • Optimising ventilation and oxygenation
  • Introduction to waveform capnography


However, there may also be opportunity for participants to practise:
  • Establishing IV or IO access

Skills Station: Basic Life Support

Focused practical training in high-quality CPR and early defibrillation.

The focus includes:
  • Optimising compression depth, rate, and recoil
  • Minimising pauses
  • Safe rhythm recognition and shock delivery
  • Clear communication during defibrillation sequences


Our focus is typically on manual mode defibrillation, however will discussion AED use and demonstrate key differences in application.

Skills Station: Cardiac Arrest Scenarios

This is where participants integrate their learning and apply it in structured, team-based cardiac arrest simulations. Scenarios are designed to challenge clinical reasoning, communication, and performance under time pressure.

The focus includes:
  • Applying the ARC ALS Algorithm in real time
  • Role allocation and leadership within the resuscitation team
  • Clear, structured communication
  • Decision-making under pressure


Each scenario concludes with a facilitated debrief, providing structured feedback to reinforce strengths, clarify clinical reasoning, and identify opportunities for growth in a safe learning environment.

Lecture: Cardiac Arrest in Special Circumstances

Cardiac arrest doesn't always follow the rules.

This session explores how management deviates in special clinical situations including:
  • Pregnancy
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Asthma
  • Electrolyte disturbances
  • Hypothermia
  • Toxicological cases


Participants will examine how the ALS algorithm adapts when underlying pathophysiology changes, strengthening clinical flexibility and judgement.

Lecture: Blood Gas Interpretation

This interactive workshop develops a structured approach to interpreting arterial blood gases in critically unwell patients.

Participants will:
  • Understand normal ABG parameters and acid-base terminology
  • Apply a structured 5-step interpretation method
  • Identify respiratory vs metabolic disturbances
  • Recognise mixed acid-base disorders
  • Analyse ABGs in real cardiac arrest and peri-arrest case scenarios


The focus is practical interpretation, linking numbers to physiology and clinical action.

Lecture: Post Resus Care

Return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) is only the beginning. This session explores post-cardiac arrest syndrome and ongoing organ support strategies.

Participants will:
  • Understand post-cardiac arrest brain injury and myocardial dysfunction
  • Optimise airway, ventilation and oxygenation
  • Manage haemodynamics and organ perfusion
  • Explore Targeted Temperature Management (TTM)
  • Consider safe transfer and delayed prognostication


This session shifts focus from “resuscitation” to “optimising survival and neurological outcome.”

Why Clinicians
Choose RoSC

  • Build confidence to recognise, respond and lead early in time-critical clinical emergencies
  • Train in small groups led by practising clinicians for personalised feedback and real-world relevance
  • Develop structured clinical decision-making under pressure, not just algorithm recall
  • Refine communication and team leadership through immersive simulation and structured debrief
  • Receive ARC-accredited training delivered to nationally recognised standards

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