Paediatric Immediate Life Support Provider Course
      General information

Learning outcomes
 
The PILS course aims to provide healthcare staff with the necessary knowledge and skills needed to:
 
     Understand the structured ABCDE approach that facilitates
       rapid recognition of seriously ill children
     Provide appropriate initial treatment interventions to prevent
       cardiorespiratory arrest
     Treat children in respiratory or cardiorespiratory arrest until the
       arrival of a resuscitation team or more experienced assistance
     Become members of a paediatric resuscitation team
 

Pre-course preparation
 
The course is run over one day and is mainly delivered as hands-on practical skill stations and workshops and one lecture. The manual should be forwarded two weeks before the start of the course and the candidate is advised to study this thoroughly. Assessment on the course is continuous in nature and copies of the assessment forms should be forwarded to the candidate with their manual.
 

Practical Stations
 
     BLS and choking
     Airway management and ventilation
     BLS with adjuncts
     Emergency circulatory access, fluid administration and medications
     Paediatric ALS algorithm and management of cardiorespiratory arrest
     Simulation practice
     Optional targeted training
 

Demonstrations
 
     Initial ABCDE assessment and interventions
     Simulation
 

Lecture
 
     Recognition and initial management of the seriously ill child
 

 
 
 

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