ACLS/BLS as an attending

[Hybrocure]

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I’m curious how many of us are required to maintain this status post residency. Some hospitals I’ve heard require it others don’t. ACLS seems like total overkill but what is everyone else’s experience with this?

 

[DYK343]

I’m curious how many of us are required to maintain this status post residency. Some hospitals I’ve heard require it others don’t. ACLS seems like total overkill but what is everyone else’s experience with this?

I need both.
I run the other direction during a code on med surg.

 

[Hybrocure]

I need both.
I run the other direction during a code on med surg.

The scene of an entire floor nurse crew listening to a podiatrist run a floor code on a patient that has nothing to do with the foot is George Costanza worthy

 

[Adam Smasher]

If anyone needs me to perform acls on them, they'd better have their affairs in order

 

[air bud]

I’m curious how many of us are required to maintain this status post residency. Some hospitals I’ve heard require it others don’t. ACLS seems like total overkill but what is everyone else’s experience with this?

Maintain? That implies I ever got it in the first place.

 

[air bud]

If anyone needs me to perform acls on them, they'd better have their affairs in order

Wen USMLE?

 

[PMG03470]

I was required to have both for residency. Now I just have to maintain BLS.

 

[Weirdy]

I was required to have both for residency. Now I just have to maintain BLS.

Ditto on this