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European Paediatric Life Support (EPLS)
Provider Course
General information
Aims
The EPLS provider course is intended to provide training for multi-disciplinary healthcare professionals in the early recognition of the child in respiratory or circulatory failure and the development of the knowledge and core skills required to intervene to prevent further deterioration towards respiratory or cardiorespiratory arrest.
The EPLS provider course is a collaboration between the European Resuscitation Council
and the Resuscitation Council (UK) and reflects changes in resuscitation education.
Who the course is suitable for
This course is designed for healthcare professionals who would be expected to apply
the skills taught as part of their clinical duties, or to teach them on a regular basis.
Appropriate participants include doctors, nurses and paramedics working in direct contact with children.
All applicants should hold a current clinical appointment and professional healthcare qualification.
Medical students in their final year of training can be accepted as candidates
provided they do not exceed 10% of the total number of candidates.
Pre-course preparation
The manual and DVD are sent to the candidate one month before the course date
and the candidate is strongly advised to study these thoroughly before attending.
A pre-course multiple-choice questionnaire (MCQ) provides a baseline measure upon which
new learning can be evaluated and candidates should be advised to complete it
without reference to the manual.
The EPLS provider course
There are 3 assessment components:
The course comprises lectures, workshops, practical skill and teaching stations,
discussion groups, mentor / mentee meetings and assessments.
Lectures
Recognition of the seriously ill child
Management of the seriously ill child
Newborn resuscitation
Post-resuscitation Care
Workshops
Paediatric arrhythmias and treatment of cardiorespiratory arrest
Trauma management
Group Discussion
Ethics
Skill Stations
Basic life support with bag mask ventilation and foreign body
airway obstruction
Airway and ventilation
Vascular access
Trauma
Arrhythmia recognition and safe defibrillation
Teaching Scenarios
Newborn resuscitation
Respiratory Failure
Circulatory Failure
Trauma
Cardiac arrhythmias
Cardiorespiratory arrest
Demonstration
An experienced faculty will give a scenario teaching demonstration.
This introduces the concept of role-play and simulated scenario management,
assessment of the critically ill child or infant, shockable / non-shockable algorithms,
positive critiquing, and team leadership skills.
Assessments
Assessments are based on clinical scenarios that allow the candidate
to effectively demonstrate the core competencies that have been taught on the course.
The scenarios are standardised and reflect reality as closely as possible.
Paediatric basic life support with bag-mask ventilation
(outcome based assessment)
ALS scenario
MCQ
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