Resuscitation Training Courses
ALSG Advanced Paediatric Life Support Course
The APLS course provides the knowledge and skills necessary for recognition and effective treatment and stabilisation of children with life threatening emergencies, using a structured, sequential approach.
The seriously ill and or injured child needs to be treated as an individual; there are four key differences that determine treatment: weight, anatomy, physiology, and psychology.
The structured approach focuses the clinician on resuscitation, emergency treatment followed by continual stabilisation and then transfer to a definitive care environment.
APLS aims to teach, practice and test the acquisition and use of these technical skills. In addition, the human factors that generate the highest quality and safest health care provision are considered.
APLS curriculum and key information
1-day online modular education through our VLE: 17 e-modules, Structured approach, Human factors, Recognition of seriously ill child, Child with breathing difficulties, Child in shock, Abnormal pulse rate or rhythm, Decreased conscious level, Convulsing child, Seriously injured child, Chest injury, Abdominal injury, Head injury, Injury to the spine, Burns and scalds, Drowning, Cardiac arrest, Stabilisation and transfer.
Plus 2-day face-to-face course with lectures, skills, simulations, demonstrations.
Lectures - Welcome, aims & setting the scene.
Demonstrations & interactive sessions - Assessing & managing the serious ill child, Structured approach to the seriously injured child, Cardiac simulation & skills.
Skill & simulation sessions - Serious illness simulation & skills, Serious injury simulation & skills, Cardiac simulation and skills including review and Continual assessment.
Candidate criteria and eligibility
This advanced paediatric life support programme is for those from:
- A medical, nursing, ECP, ODP or RTO background
- Physician’s Assistants for which APLS is relevant to their working practice.
- RTOs from any background who work in a paediatric hospital are eligible to take the programme. However, RTOs who work in a non-paediatric hospital, with any other background to those already listed, can send an application to the Working Group detailing their paediatric practice and each of these cases will be considered individually. The Working Group also recommend that nurses are senior staff nurses and above.
- Experienced level 5 staff nurses.
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Assessment and certification
Assessment takes place continuously throughout the course. If you are successful, APLS certification is valid for four years and includes access to our VLE and a paediatric e-Library.
For further information please see the ALSG website:
https://www.alsg.org/home/
