Advanced Ventilator Life Support
(AVLS)

A Mechanical Ventilation Mastery Course for Advanced Providers

A learning experience on the art and science of mechanical ventilation, unlike anything you’ve experienced before.

A Mechanical Ventilation Master Class for Experienced Critical Care Clinicians

The Advanced Ventilator Life Support Course is designed to elevate the expertise of healthcare professionals managing critically ill patients on mechanical ventilation. This course covers advanced modes, scalar graphs, loops, advanced troubleshooting, lung ultrasound to optimize care, prone position ventilation, negative pressure ventilation, ventilation during ECMO, weaning protocols, and more.

Through a combination of interactive lectures, case-based discussions, and hands-on simulation, participants will deepen their understanding of the latest evidence-based practices. The course also emphasizes early optimization of mechanical ventilation care, cross-discipline collaboration, recognition and prevention of ventilator-induced lung injury, and evidence-based efforts to improve patient outcomes.

Course Details

  • Course Fee: $197 / student

  • 1-year access to course material

  • Immersive online self-paced learning

  • Pre-test to establish a baseline for focused learning

  • Engaging lessons

  • Video-based vent labs demonstrating didactic material

  • Interactive patient scenarios

  • Section quizzes w/ rationals

  • Comprehensive final exam

  • Downloadable study guide

  • Downloadable certificate of completion

  • Continuing education credit for EMS and Nurses.

  • 3-year certification

Continuing Education Hours

  • RN hours awarded through the California Board of Nursing

  • (RT and Provider CE’s Pending)

Course covers…

  • Review of the importance of early safe and effective mechanical ventilation.

  • Advanced modes including PRVC, ASV, Bi-Level, APRV, PAV, NAVA

  • Lung Isolation Ventilation / One-Lung Ventilation (OLV)

  • Advanced patient monitoring techniques, including

    • Volumetric Capnography

    • Advanced Scalar Graphs

    • Pressure-Volume & Flow-Volume Loops

    • Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound

    • Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT).

  • How to properly recognize and respond to critical changes in lung dynamics.

  • Strategies for managing severe refractory hypoxia, including Optimizing PEEP / MAP, Proning, Open Lung Ventilation, and Mechanical Ventilation during ECMO

  • How to recognize and respond to problems with patient-ventilator asynchrony, hemodynamic compromise, and neurological effects.

  • Non-invasive Biphasic Chest Cuirass Ventilation