PALS Course 2-10-2021
February 10, 2021
This course will review how to recognize certain pediatric emergencies and the skills to properly treat certain events. After completing this course, individuals will be able to work together as a inter-professional team to properly manage and treat patients experiencing life threatening events such as respiratory distress/failure, shock, or cardiac arrhythmias
Target Audience
Physician
Registered Nurses
Nurse Practitioner
Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, the learner will be able to:
- Perform high-quality CPR per AHA recommendations
- Recognize cardiopulmonary arrest early and begin CPR within 10 seconds
- Describe roles and responsibilities of team members and elements of an effective team
- Differentiate between respiratory distress and failure
- Differentiate between compensated and decompensated shock,
- Identify causes of different types of shock such as hypovolemic, obstructive, cardiogenic, and distributive
- Identify common arrhythmias in pediatric patients
- Describe clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
4401 Penn Ave
Pittsburgh, PA
United States
ANCC
AMA
Available Credit
- 2.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 2.50 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 2.50 Attendance