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.

Content and Modules

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

Course Completion Card Type

AHA PALS Provider course completion card, valid for 2 years.