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2020 AHA HeartCode® PALS Online

2020 AHA HeartCode® PALS Online

Description

HeartCode® PALS Online is the online portion of PALS blended learning that will prepare students for hands-on skills session with an AHA PALS Instructor or on a simulation station.

Product Specification
  • Updated to reflect new science in the 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR & ECC.
  • HeartCode® PALS is the AHA’s blended learning delivery method for the AHA’s PALS Course. HeartCode® blended learning delivers quality resuscitation education regardless of where providers are located and gives them more control to complete the course at their own pace.
  • Providers first complete the online portion of HeartCode® PALS and then complete a hands-on skills session with an AHA PALS Instructor or on a simulation station.
  • To enter the course, participants must complete a pre-course self-assessment.
  • The PALS Course is for healthcare providers who either direct or participate in the management of respiratory and/or cardiovascular emergencies and cardiopulmonary arrest in pediatric patients.
  • Learners may choose to take the course in the following languages: U.S. English and International English (IVE).

Course Learning Objectives:

After successfully completing the PALS Course, students should be able to:

  • Perform high quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) per AHA basic life support (BLS) recommendations.
  • Differentiate between patients who do and do not require immediate intervention.
  • Recognize cardiopulmonary arrest early and begin CPR within 10 seconds.
  • Apply team dynamics.
  • Differentiate between and perform early interventions for respiratory distress and failure.
  • Differentiate between compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock.
  • Perform early interventions for the treatment of shock.
  • Differentiate between unstable and stable patients with arrhythmias.
  • Describe clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias.
  • Implement post–cardiac arrest management.