Pediatric Advanced Life Support Refresher

EMS735 – 8.00 Hours

Currently there are no scheduled classes for this course. However, in some cases a course can be scheduled to meet your organization’s specific needs. For more information about this course or to schedule a class, please contact Emergency Services Training Institute at (866) 878-8900 or [email protected] to get the latest schedule.

Course Description

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) is for healthcare who respond to emergencies in infants and children and for personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units.  The PALS Provider Course aims to improve outcomes for pediatric patients by preparing healthcare providers to effectively recongnize and interven in patients with respiratory emergencies, shock, and cardiopulmonary arrest by using high perfromance team dynamics and high-quality indicidual skills.  The course includes a series of case scenario practices with simulations that reidforce important concepts.  

Prerequisites

All students must complete the Precourse Self-Assessment and achieve a score of at least 70% before taking the PALS course.  Students must print their score report and bring it with them to class.  

Renewal students must present a current PALS card.  The card must be issued by American Heart Association (AHA) and not be expired at the time of class.  Students with expired cards will need to attend to full course.  

Course Completion Requirements

Students are expected to have a general understanding of basic EKG recognition.  

Participants Must Provide 

  • A photo identification on the first day of class.  See the Participant Handbook for approved forms of identification guidelines.  

Attendance Requirements

Class attendance is an essential part of education process and particpants in TEEX courses are expected to attend all class sessions and field exercises.  

Upon successful completion, you will be able to:

  •  Preform high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) per American Heart Association (AHA) basic life support recommendations.
  •  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.

Suggested Audience

Disciplines include, but are not limited to: 

  • Paramedics 
  • Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) 
  • Physician 
  • Physician Assistant 
  • Nurses 
  • Respirtory Therapists

Continuing Education And Professional Credits

  • 8.00 hours – American Heart Association

Other Information

Upon completion of this course particpants will receive an AHA provider card.  

Contact Information

Emergency Services Training Institute
Phone: (979) 217-6579
Email: [email protected]