Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
As with any emergency, when a child’s life is medically unstable and needs urgent lifesaving care, it’s vital that the emergency care team responds in an appropriate and timely manner. Distinguishing a critically ill or injured pediatric patient from one with less urgency is crucial.
Thousands of children suffer a cardiac arrest each year in the U.S. When a child experiences a critical injury or disease, a provider’s reaction time and response can mean the difference between life and death.
PALS training prepares healthcare professionals in the pediatric emergency setting to rapidly assess the clinical condition of pediatric patients in severe distress while delivering appropriate interventions through best practice techniques and expert knowledge.
PALS, or Pediatric Advanced Life Support, is a certification training for healthcare professionals who are likely to respond to emergency situations involving children and infants. Classes revolve around teaching lifesaving interventions to healthcare providers in emergency and critical care.
RC Health Services is an American Heart Association-approved provider of PALS certification. It’s essential that healthcare workers get their PALS training only from AHA providers who only use advanced life support courses that utilize the latest AHA treatment guidelines for emergency cardiovascular care and CPR.
These guidelines were developed through clinical research, patient studies, an analysis of protocols, and expert reviews and opinions.
The instructional materials in our classes meet the course requirements for AHA-approved PALS certification, as well as BLS and ACLS.
Our RC Health Services’ PALS certification course is aimed at assisting our healthcare providers in developing effective skills and expert knowledge to optimally manage seriously ill pediatric patients.
What Will Our PALS Course Teach You?
The PALS courses at RC Health Services instruct its students on providing emergency life or death care for infants and younger children. Advanced life support treatment is different for infant and child emergencies than for adults. It’s instrumental that pediatric patients receive the appropriate medical response during an emergency.
RC Health Services utilizes a combination of methods to teach and reinforce PALS concepts, including the assessment of the pediatric patient, basic life support in children and infants, treatment algorithms, and results-driven resuscitation methods.
Our AHA Heartcode PALS science-based curriculum course offering will teach you how to identify and prevent cardiac arrest in pediatric patients, and utilize eSimulation technology, allowing you to evaluate and treat the pediatric patient in a virtual medical setting.
The resuscitation training classes describe inpatient hospital scenarios that allow the student to interact to optimize learning. Following the eSimulations, our students receive virtual debriefings to reinforce the concepts learned.
RC Health’s PALS class will help you master the following:
- Early cardiac, shock, and respiratory recognition and intervention
- Identify pediatric patients who need immediate intervention
- Distinguish respiratory distress from respiratory failure
- Understand the difference between decompensated and compensated shock
- Apply and perform American Heart Association approved Infant CPR and Basic Life Support
- Application of Child CPR and AED use
- Distinguish the difference between stable and unstable pediatric patients with arrhythmias
- Manage aftercare in post-cardiac arrest in children and infants
- Maximize team dynamics in the resuscitation setting
Who Should Have a PALS Certification?
Anyone planning to work in an emergency setting should undergo rigorous PALS training and certification. This includes first responders, EMTs and EMS workers, and healthcare workers who plan to work in emergency medicine, critical care, and intensive care units.
PALS Class Taught By Healthcare Professionals
Health professionals currently working in these settings should also get PALS certification if they haven’t already. Paramedics, nurses, and physicians are also required to maintain their PALS certification and recertify before it lapses.
As an approved American Heart Association Training Center, we provide our students with expert-level instruction in our PALS class and other advanced life support courses every healthcare professional needs.
You’ll learn from the best in their field as our teachers work as paramedics, nurses, and EMTs. They have real-world knowledge and experience in the pediatric emergency medical field.
Advanced Life Support Training Centers in Texas and Beyond
Our advanced life support classes are the best you’ll find. Our comprehensive courses deliver exceptional and unrivaled preparation for healthcare providers who care for trauma and emergency care patients.
In addition to PALS training, RC Health Services offers courses in the following:
- BLS
- ACLS
- EMT and Advanced EMT
- EMT Hybrid Virtual Course
- NCCP EMT Refresher Course
- AED Training
- TNCC/ENPC
- Heartsaver CPR/AED
- First Aid
- Bloodborne Pathogens
- AHA Online Courses
- Workplace Courses
Training Centers
Our training centers are conveniently located all across Texas, including the Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin areas. We also have centers in Louisiana, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Florida, including New Orleans, LA; Oklahoma City, OK; and Jacksonville, FL.
EMT Basic Course
In addition, we’re a leading online nationwide provider of the EMT Basic Course, which was developed for up-and-coming EMTs across the U.S.
Same Day Certification
In most cases, our students can receive same-day certification for our AHA-approved certification courses. Once a student has successfully completed their course, they’re issued a 2-year certification.
Convenient PALS Online Training
At RC Health Services, we understand that medicine is a demanding career and that you live a busy life as a healthcare professional. You’re to be commended for stepping up to the challenge. That’s why we developed an online PALS course that you can take whenever it’s convenient for you.
Most of the course is through virtual learning through the Internet, but 20% is skill-based and hands-on training. So, you have the best of both worlds in your training while respecting your timetable.
Once you complete your online classes, you’ll have an in-person training session that focuses on your skillset while training you for a real-world advanced life support pediatric emergency.
Let’s Begin Your PALS Training Today!
There’s no better time to get certified and make a difference in the lives of critically ill pediatric patients. Pediatric medicine has never seen higher demand than at this moment in time.
Take your healthcare career to the next level and register for PALS training today!
Contact RC Health Services at 281-416-5939.