THIS COURSE IS FOR PALS RECERTIFICATION ONLY! YOU MUST HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN PALS CERTIFIED.
*** Your textbook is included in the price for this course. You can pick it up during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Please call Amy Polhamus at 607-205-2459, or the book will be brought with the instructor to the class***
Course Format
In the new 2025 PALS Provider Course, students complete pre-course work before the course, ensuring they are prepared for the course. Pre-course work includes the mandatory Pre-course Self-Assessment, followed by video lessons.
The course is structured as follows:
• Core concepts are presented online through interactive video lessons. Video lessons are completed before coming to class. Then, Instructors lead discussions and case-based scenarios around a manikin during class.
• The Instructor coaches students by using a feedback device as they practice CPR and ventilation skills.
• The Instructor monitors as each student/team demonstrates skills proficiency as outlined in the skills testing checklist.
• Students take the PALS Provider Course Exam to confirm their understanding of core concepts.
Audience
The PALS Course is designed for healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies. This includes personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care, and critical care units, such as physicians, nurses, and paramedics, as well as others who need a PALS course completion card for jobs or other requirements.
Course Content
In the 2025 PALS Provider Course, students will learn and practice
- Systematic Approach: Using the Pediatric Assessment Triangle (PAT) and the Evaluate-Identify-Intervene sequence.
- Algorithms: Applying PALS algorithms and flowcharts for various emergencies.
- Resuscitation: Skills for treating cardiac and respiratory emergencies, shock, and care after Return of Spontaneous Circulation (ROSC).
- Team Dynamics: Demonstrating effective resuscitation team communication and leadership.
- Core Concepts: Improving blood oxygenation, easing oxygen demand, managing fluid/metabolic imbalances, and understanding heart rhythms (Bradycardia, Tachycardia, VF, Asystole).
Course Format
Providers who take the PALS update Course must be proficient in the following:
• Performing high-quality BLS skills according to the current AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC
• Reading and interpreting electrocardiograms (ECGs)
• Understanding PALS pharmacology
• Providing bag-mask ventilation
Features
The 2025 PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) course, based on American Heart Association guidelines, focuses on systematic pediatric assessment (PAT), systematic approach (Evaluate-Identify-Intervene), algorithms for cardiac/respiratory emergencies, team dynamics, and post-resuscitation care, with mandatory Pre-Course Self-Assessments (PSA) and updated materials for providers. Key learning areas include improving oxygenation, easing demand, managing fluid/metabolic issues, and handling shock, cardiac arrest, and post-ROSC care.
- Skills Testing High-Quality BLS Skills Testing
- Focuses on continuous chest compressions, Megacode Testing
- Assesses students as a team
- Set goals related to chest compression fraction and teamwork, Provider Manual Updates
- Highlights 2 main themes: preventing arrest and high-performance teams
- New information under “Cardiac Arrest: Selected Special Situations” on Maternal cardiac arrest or Ventricular assist devices
- Revised illustrations
- CPR Coach
- Expanded information on high-performance teams
Course Completion Card
The American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course Completion eCard is valid for two years.
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