PALS is an advanced course for healthcare provider who respond to emergency in infants and children and for personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units.
The PALS Renewal course is for students that have a current AHA PALS certification.
The course covers
The PALS course aims to improve outcomes for pediatric patients by preparing healthcare providers to effectively recognize and intervene in patients with respiratory emergencies, shot, and cardiopulmonary arrest.
- Perform high-quality CPR
- Differentiate between patients who do and do not require immediate intervention
- Recognize cardiopulmonary arrest early
- Apply Team Dynamics
- Differentiate between respiratory destress and failure
- Perform early interventions for respiratory distress and failure
- Differentiate between compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock
- 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