American Heart Association CPR and First Aid Training

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Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) for PGY 1 SUNY DOWNSTATE RESIDENTS
Date/Time: Sun 6/1/2025 at 10:00 AM
Location: NEW YORK - 450 Clarkson Ave, BROOKLYN, NY, 11203 (SUNY Downstate)
Class Price: $0.00

This instructor-led, classroom-based PALS course is an essential resource for training physicians, nurses, and emergency medical care providers in PALS. Also useful as a pre- and post-course reference book and is based on the American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR and ECC.

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) (10-12 hrs)

The classroom- and video-based, instructor-led PALS course uses a series of simulated pediatric emergencies to reinforce the important concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation, and team dynamics. The goal of the PALS course is to improve the quality of care provided to seriously ill or injured children, resulting in improved outcomes. Manual includes information on:

  • pediatric emergencies
  • concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment
  • BLS
  • PALS treatment algorithms
  • effective resuscitation
  • team dynamics.

Do You Need BLS? You can also get your BLS for Healthcare Providers Certification during this course by adding the AHA BLS Healthcare Provider Course from the menu below

Basic Life Support (BLS) (3-4 Hours)

The BLS for Healthcare Providers course is designed to provide a wide variety of certified or noncertified, licensed or nonlicensed, healthcare professionals with the skills to keep people alive until they can be brought to a hospital or be treated with more advanced lifesaving measures.

 The BLS course covers:

  • Adult, Child, and Infant CPR
  • Two-rescuer scenarios and use of the bag-valve mask
  • Foreign-body airway obstruction (conscious and unconscious)
  • Automated external defibrillation (AED) for adult, child, and infant
  • Special resuscitation situations
  • Other cardiopulmonary emergencies and stroke and cardiac arrest 
  • Advanced Airways
  • Rescue Breathing

 

ELIGIBILITY*:  PGY 1 SUNY Downstate Paid Residents