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Peadiatric Life Support (PALS) Training

The PALS certification course provides rigorous and comprehensive training of the skills needed to provide life-saving care to infants and children.

COURSE OVERVIEW​

The PALS Provider Course aims to improve outcomes for paediatric patients by preparing healthcare providers to effectively recognize and intervene in paediatric patients with critical emergencies, including shock and cardiopulmonary arrest. The PALS course also emphasizes the importance of high‐performance team dynamics and high‐quality individual skills.

Duration

5 days | 8.00am - 5.00pm

Venue

Healthcare Financial Management Association(HFMA)

Date(s)

To be communicated

WHO TO ATTEND

For healthcare providers who respond to emergencies in infants and children and for personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units.

INDIVIDUAL OUTCOMES
After successfully completing this course, participants will be able to
  • Perform high‐quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) per American Heart Association (AHA) basic life support (BLS) 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
  • 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
    • COURSE CONTENT
    • High-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
    • Differentiation & management of respiratory distress and respiratory failure
    • Differentiation between compensated and hypotensive (decompensated) shock
    • Types of shock and respective interventions
    • Bradycardic and tachycardic rhythms
    • Clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
    • Cardiac arrest and post-cardiac arrest management