EMS 2002 - Pediatric Advanced Life Support

1. Introduction
2. PALS science update
3. CPR/AED practice and competency testing
4. Management of respiratory emergencies skills station
5. Rhythm disturbances/electrical therapy skills station
6. Vascular access skills station
7. Core case simulations
8. Core case discussions and simulations for cardiac cases
9. Core case discussions and simulations for respiratory cases
10. Core case discussions and simulations for shock cases
11. Comprehensive case simulations
12. Emergency Delivery and Newborn Stabilization
13. Children with Special Health Care Needs
14. PALS summary and written/practical testing

1. insert simple airway adjuncts
2. insert an intraosseous needle
3. obtain vascular access
4. manage a pediatric patient with a life-threatening cardiac rhythm
5. direct the actions of a resuscitation team
6. use appropriate electrical therapy
7. select the energy levels required for electrical interventions
8. demonstrate electrical interventions
9. recall indications, contraindications, doses, and routes of administration for drugs
10. ventilate using a bag-valve-mask
11. perform an endotracheal intubation
12. confirm endotracheal tube placement
13. relieve an airway obstruction
14. manage a tracheostomy
15. manage a pediatric patient with a respiratory emergency
16. manage a pediatric patient in hypotensive shock

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