• Target Audience and Goal Statement
• Accreditation Statement
• Medical Reviewers and Disclosures
• Instructions for Participation and Credit

• Preparing for PALS
• Organization of the PALS Course
• 2015 Changes to Pediatric BLS
• Cardiac Arrest Outside of Hospital
• Infant or Child as a Witnessed Collapse
• Infant or Child as an Unwitnessed Collapse
• Adolescent as Either Witnessed or Unwitnessed Collapse

• PALS Sequence Algorithm
• Evaluate-Identify-Intervene
• Evaluate
• Primary Assessment
• Secondary Assessment
• Diagnostic Tests
• Identify
• Intervene

• Hypoxemia
• Hypercarbia
• Respiratory Problems

• Management of Upper Airway Obstructions
• Management of Lower Airway Obstructions

• Shock Pathophysiology
• Compensatory Mechanisms in Shock
• Signs of Shock by Type

• Initial Management
• Shock Management by Type
• Shock: Fluids and Medications
• Hypovolemic Shock Treatment
• Distributive Shock Treatment
• Cardiogenic Shock Treatment
• Obstructive Shock Treatment
• Intraosseous Access

• Underlying Causes of Bradycardia
• PALS Bradycardia Algorithm

• Tachycardia Signs and Symptoms
• Tachycardia: Initial Management and Interventions
• Tachycardia with Poor Perfusion
• Tachycardia with Adequate Perfusion

• What is cardiac arrest?
• Management of Cardiac Arrest through Basic Life Support (BLS) Components
• Advanced Life Support (ALS) in Cardiac Arrest
• The PALS Cardiac Arrest Algorithm
• Manual Defibrillation in Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
• When Special Circumstances Arise

• Secondary Assessments During the Post-Resuscitation Period
• The DOPE Mnemonic
• Maintenance of Fluids
• The H’s and T’s
• Managing Shock Following Successful Resuscitation
• Transporting the Patient

• Commonly Used Medications
• Pediatric Resuscitation Tapes

• Sinus Rhythm
• Sinus Bradycardia
• Sinus Tachycardia
• Sinus Rhythm with 1st Degree Heart Block
• 2nd Degree AV Heart Block
• 3rd Degree Heart Block
• Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
• Atrial Fibrillation (AF)
• Atrial Flutter
• Asystole
• Pulseless Electrical Activity
• Ventricular Tachycardia (VT)
• Ventricular fibrillation (VF)

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