PALS is a specialty certification that specifically teaches medical professionals’ life-saving care to infants and children. It is designed to teach rescuers how to properly assess patients, provide advanced interventions, and utilizing scenarios while applying critical thinking skills. It reinforces the important concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation, and team dynamics.
Upcoming Classes
WHAT DOES THIS COURSE TEACH?
- Review of child and infant CPR
- Review of child AED
- Recognition of patients who do and do not require immediate intervention
- Recognition of cardiopulmonary arrest early and application of CPR within 10 seconds
- Understand how to properly 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
- Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team