The PALS course is designed for healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of respiratory and/or cardiovascular emergencies and cardiopulmonary arrest in pediatric patients, including: 

• physicians
• nurses
• paramedics
• personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care, and critical care units
• other providers who need a PALS course completion card for job or other requirements.

 

The goal of the PALS course is to improve the quality of care provided to seriously ill or injured children, resulting in improved outcomes. The PALS course uses a series of videos and simulated pediatric emergencies to reinforce the important concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation, and team dynamics.  Pediatric Advanced Life Support Helps with the skills needed to help critically ill infans and children. The goal of the PALS course is to aid the pediatric healthcare provider in developing the knowledge and skills necessary to efficiently and effectively manage critically ill infants and children, resulting in improved outcomes. All of the American Heart Association's Advanced and Basic Life Support courses are offered both in the classroom or online. Course completion cards are valid for 2 years from the day of the course.

After successfully completing the PALS course, students should be able to:

• perform high-quality child CPR AED and infant CPR per American Heart Association Basic Life Support recommendations
• differentiate between patients who do and do not require immediate intervention
• recognize cardiopulmonary arrest early and begin CPR within 10 seconds
• apply team dynamics
• differentiate between respiratory distress and failure, and perform early interventions for both
• differentiate between compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock, and perform early interventions for the treatment of shock
• differentiate between unstable and stable patients with arrhythmias
• describe clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
• implement post-cardiac arrest management.

The American Heart Association's Pediatric Advanced Life Support course is offered both in the classroom or online. Once you complete all requirements, you will be issued a course completion card on the same day you complete the course.

 

Course completion cards are valid for 2 years from the day of the course.

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AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION TEXTBOOK POLICY

All students must have the current appropriate AHA course textbook for their individual use before, during, and after the course. Students should review the textbook before class and have immediate access to their own copy afterward as a reference and review tool. The only exception to this policy is the student who is a healthcare professional who will have access to the textbook for individual study reference before, during, and after the course at his or her facility. A library/archive for healthcare professionals is acceptable but does not meet the requirement for lay programs.

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AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION TEXTBOOK POLICY

Each student must have the current AHA PALS course textbook for their individual use before, during, and after the course. Students should review the textbook before class and have immediate access to their own copy afterward as a reference and review tool. The only exception to this policy is the student who is a healthcare professional who will have access to the textbook for individual study reference before, during, and after the course at his or her facility. A library/archive for healthcare professionals is acceptable but does not meet the requirement for lay programs.

Students ARE ALLOWED to use their textbook during mega-code testing and the written exam.

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