EMS 2553 - Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

1 Credit Hour
(Offered as needed)

Designed for the EMS student. Fundamentals of recognizing infants and children who are at risk for cardiopulmonary arrest, including the strategies that are needed to prevent cardiopulmonary arrest in infants and children and the cognitive and psychomotor skills needed to resuscitate and stabilize infants and children in respiratory failure, shock or cardiopulmonary arrest.

Prerequisite(s): EMT certificate or permission of the instructor.

* This college credit course is not intended for transfer and may not be applied toward the A.A. degree.