Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) HeartCode Course (Dec 16, 2025)

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) HeartCode Course is organized by Munson Healthcare (MHC) and will be held on Dec 16, 2025 at Grayling Hospital, Grayling, Michigan, United States of America.

Description:

HeartCode is the online portion of PALS blended learning that will prepare students for hands-on practice and testing of skills. It uses a personalized adaptive algorithm that sets students on the most efficient path to content mastery. Students follow a continuously adapting learning path that is personalized by their own inputs: their performance, and their self- reported confidence level related to each probing question. The course content is presented in the form of self-directed learning content, probing questions, and Cognitive Assessment Activities (CAAs). After completing the eLearning component, students perform their skills with an AHA Instructor or a HeartCode compatible manikin that provides real-time audio and visual feedback. Students must successfully complete both the cognitive portion and the hands-on skills session to receive an AHA PALS Provider eCard, valid for two years.

This includes this hands-on skills practice and testing with an AHA PALS Instructor.

Details:

The AHA's PALS Course has been updated to reflect new science in the 2020 AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC. The goal of the PALS Course is to improve outcomes for pediatric patients by preparing healthcare providers to effectively recognize and intervene in patients with respiratory emergencies, shock, and cardiopulmonary arrest by using high-performance team dynamics and high-quality individual skills.

In the 2020 PALS Course, students will learn and practice:

• Skills:
• Performing child and infant CPR
• Using oxygen delivery and airway management equipment
• Establishing intraosseous (IO) access and a method for giving rapid fluid boluses
• Using electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring
• Providing defibrillation/cardioversion
• Pediatric assessment: A systematic approach
• Medical management:
  • 4 types of acute respiratory problems
  • 4 types of acute circulatory problems
  • 4 types of acute cardiac problems, including cardiac arrest
• Leadership: Communication and other important elements of team dynamics as they relate to resuscitation