Practical skills are taught and assessed within the scenarios, and by the end of the course, you must have demonstrated your ability to perform the psychomotor skills of:

• high-quality CPR
• defibrillation
• airway management
• DC cardioversion.

Your management of a cardiac arrest as a Team Leader and performance of the skills associated with resuscitation (technical and non-technical) will be assessed using serial outcomes-based criteria (as identified below). There is no post-course MCQ.

The elements that you will be assessed on are:

• assessing and managing the critically ill patient
• cardiac arrest management
  • patient assessment
  • management of cardiac arrest
  • recognition and treatment of cardiac arrest rhythms
  • identification and treatment of relevant reversible causes
  • post-resuscitation care.
• non-technical skills
  • situational awareness
  • decision making
  • task management
  • team working
  • communication.

Based on your performance in these elements, your instructors will make a global assessment of whether you have achieved the required standard or if you need further practice.

Assessment is conducted throughout each of the scenarios. Your performance of the various technical and non-technical skills must meet the assessment criteria in order for you to successfully complete the course.

The assessment matrix outlines the outcomes that are being assessed so that you can prepare yourself in advance of the course.

You will be debriefed on your performance in all elements of the course throughout. The global assessment is summative (which means it must be achieved to constitute a ‘pass’). If you are assessed as ‘needing further practice’, and this is not remediated during the eight CASTeaches, there is an opportunity for further remediation during supervised practice before the course closes. If you have not met the assessment criteria by the end of the course, you have failed to re-certify.