PALS Provider Course 

The AHA’s PALS Course has been updated to reflect new science in the 2020 AHA Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC. This classroom, Instructor-led 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. The goal of the PALS Course is to improve the quality of care provided to seriously ill or injured children, resulting in improved outcomes.  This is the International English (IVE) version of the PALS Course. IVE training materials have been updated to include metric units of measure and other references that do not apply to students in the US and Canada.

Audience

For healthcare providers who respond to emergencies in infants and children. This includes personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units, such as physicians, nurses, paramedics and others who need a PALS course completion card for job or other requirements.

What Does this Course Teach?

Topics covered in this course are:

• High-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

• Differentiation between patients who do require and do not require immediate interventions

• Performance as a high-performance team member

• Differentiation between respiratory distress and respiratory failure

• Management of respiratory distress and respiratory failure

• Differentiation between compensated and hypotensive (decompensated) shock

• Differentiation between types of shock

• Early interventions for the treatment of shock

• Bradycardic and tachycardic rhythms

• Clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias

• Cardiac arrest and post-cardiac arrest management