Description:
American Heart
Association PALS Provider Certification - 2 Year Certification
Recommended for any
healthcare professionals and medical personnel who may respond to pediatric
emergencies.
The PALS Class covers:
- High-quality Child CPR AED and Infant CPR
- Recognition of patients who do and do not require
immediate intervention
- Recognition of cardiopulmonary arrest early and
application of CPR within 10 seconds
- Apply team dynamics
- Differentiation between respiratory distress and
failure
- Early interventions for respiratory distress and
failure
- Differentiation between compensated and decompensated
(hypotensive) shock
- Early interventions for the treatment of shock
- Differentiation between unstable and stable patients
with arrhythmias
- Clinical characteristics of instability in patients
with arrhythmias
- Post–cardiac arrest management
- The systematic approach to Pediatric Assessment
- Management of pediatric respiratory emergencies
- Vascular access (Including intraosseous training)
- Airway Management
- PALS Pharmacology
- Basic Life Support (BLS) review
- Numerous pediatric case studies and simulations
- How to be both a leader and a team member in a
pediatric resuscitation team
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.
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.
This course lasts
approximately eight (8) hours. This class is a one-day
course.
All students who
successfully complete all requirements will receive their official American
Heart Association PALS Provider via email using the AHA eCard
system! Your course completion card will be valid for a period of
two (2) years from the date of your class.