CHS Programs
Please click the below headings to view some of our campus wide and institution specific programs.
Our Comprehensive Training Center offers trainee and instructor courses in BLS, ACLS, and PALS. Contact Neida Bonilla at (718) 245-4799 or email ecc.ctc@downstate.edu for more information.
Peripheral Venous CatheterizationTrainees learn techniques for peripheral venous catheterization on simulated arms. The course emphasizes safety, infection control, patient comfort and methods to assure maximal first time success rate.
This simulation based course for 3rd and 4th year students teaches identification and initial management skills for the patient with undifferentiated severe illness.
Ultrasound Guided ProceduresThrough didactic and hands on training, 4th year students learn several clinically relevant bedside ultrasound guided procedures. Topics include peripheral and central line catheterization, nerve blocks, paracentesis, and thoracentesis.
This course covers a wide array of contemporary topics in health care. Simulation is integrated into the course to teach principles relating to end of life care and palliation.
A wide range of topics relating to labor and delivery are taught using the NOELLE high fidelity birthing simulator. Topics covered include obstetrical emergencies such as shoulder dystocia, postpartum hemorrhage, and eclampsia; normal vaginal delivery; advanced delivery techniques for breech presentations, placental delivery, and cesarian section; and postpartum care including episiotomy repair, uterine massage, maternal and newborn resuscitation.
High fidelity simulation is utilized to teach post operative care and management of emergencies. Case scenarios are created from real cases encountered by the nurses in the recovery room.
Emergency Medicine and Surgery residents work together as a trauma team to manage patients with severe traumatic illness. The team approach to trauma is emphasized.
Geriatric Emergency MedicineThis simulation based course for Emergency Medicine Residents covers a wide range of topics related to Geriatric care in the Emergency Department. Topics include atypical presentations of disease, initial management and stabilization of geriatric emergencies, epidemiology, and end of life and palliative care.
Pericardiocentesis TrainingCardiology fellows learn pericardiocentesis on simulated models through didactic and hands on training.
Pediatric ResuscitationEmergency Medicine residents learn resuscitation skills and team approach management while caring for simulated critically ill pediatric patients.