How Online PALS Courses Empower Healthcare Professionals Today’s fast-paced healthcare environment has many demands, and staying certified in life-saving techniques is more important than ever. Online Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification courses are the answer for many busy professionals. A PALS certification course is a specialized training program designed for healthcare professionals working with infants and children. In our course, you’ll […]
Remembering Special Considerations for PALS Patients In a survey assessing prehospital providers’ knowledge of traumatic stress in children, 83% of respondents saw all aspects of psychosocial care as part of their job. However, on average, respondents answered only 2.7 out of 7 knowledge questions correctly. Interestingly, the respondents with the highest scores were mothers with a child under the age of 17 […]
PALS Primary Assessment – Exposure Transcript:Hi, everyone. We’re still in primary assessment, and we’ve come to our last segment in our primary assessment. So far, we’ve covered airway, breathing, circulation, and disability. Now we get to letter E, which stands for exposure. “And you don’t want us exposing ourselves.” Actually, Dr. Venkman, we do want to expose our patients, because […]
PALS Primary Assessment – Disability Transcript:Hi, everyone. We’re still in primary assessment. Now we’re looking at the letter D, disability. When we’re talking about disability, we’re talking about the child’s level of consciousness—are they in a state of altered mental status? That’s what we’re assessing for. Initially, you’re going to use the AVPU scale to assess their initial level of […]
PALS Primary Assessment – Circulation Hi, everyone. We’re still in primary assessment, and now we’re going to be talking about circulation, assessing this child’s cardiovascular status—how well are they moving oxygenated blood throughout the body? What measurements are we going to be taking? We’re going to be looking at their heart rate, pulses (both peripheral and central pulses), capillary refill […]
PALS Primary Assessment – Breathing Transcript:Still in primary assessment, now we’re talking about breathing, which is paramount on a child, the ability to assess their breathing. If you show up at the scene, it’s best to try to get a respiratory rate or look at their breathing before you start poking at this kid, which means if you show up […]
PALS Primary Assessment Overview Video Let’s talk about the primary assessment. This is really our first hands-on assessment of the patient. The primary assessment is broken into A, B, C, D, E: airway, breathing, circulation, disability, exposure. Those are the steps of our assessment in the primary assessment. However, know this: With all these steps, the primary assessment only has […]
PALS Secondary Assessment – SAMPLE Hi, everyone. In this video we’re going to review the secondary assessment, which means we’ve already done our pediatric assessment triangle. The first three things we look at as soon as we see the patient: level of consciousness, color, work at breathing. We’ve gone through our primary assessment: A, B, C, D, E. Now […]
