2025 Guidelines AHA Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Provider Course
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PALS Provider Course Objectives
The goal of the PALS Provider Course is to improve outcomes for pediatric patients by preparing
healthcare providers to effectively recognize and intervene in patients with respiratory emergencies, shock, and
cardiopulmonary arrest by using high-performance team dynamics and high-quality individual skills. This course
uses precourse preparation, didactic instruction, and active participation in learning stations and simulated cases.
Montana Health Network is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Montana Nurses Association, an accredited approver with distinction by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
PALS Provider Course Includes:
In the 2025 PALS Provider Course, students will learn and practice:
• Skills:
- Performing child and infant CPR
- Using oxygen delivery and airway management equipment
- Establishing intraosseous (IO) access and a method for giving rapid fluid boluses
- Using electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring
- Providing defibrillation/cardioversion
• Pediatric assessment: A systematic approach
• Medical management:
- Four (4) types of acute respiratory problems
- Four (4) types of shock severities
- Four (4) types of arrythmias, including cardiac arrest
• Leadership: Communication and other important elements of team dynamics as they relate to resuscitation
• High-Performance Teams: Numerous rounds of practice and testing to improve the choreography of team
resuscitation