Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG): Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS)

APLS provides the knowledge and skills necessary for recognition, effective treatment and stabilisation of children with life threatening emergencies, using a structured, sequential approach. The course and its principles are practiced throughout the world, and over 83,000 candidates have completed the course since its inception in 1998.

About

The three-day APLS course comprises a flexible one-day online component (VLE) and a two-day face-to-face course.

Candidates who have taken the course include consultants, advanced nurse practitioners and resuscitation training officers from Accident & Emergency, Anaesthetic and Paediatric departments.

Topics covered

1-day online modular education through our VLE

• Structured approach

• Human factors

• Recognition of seriously ill child

• Child with breathing difficulties

• Child in shock

• Abnormal pulse rate or rhythm

• Decreased conscious level

• Convulsing child

• Seriously injured child

• Chest injury

• Abdominal injury

• Head injury

• Injury to the spine

• Burns and scalds

• Drowning

• Cardiac arrest

• Stabilisation and transfer

2-day face-to-face course with lectures, skills, simulations, demonstrations

Lectures

• Welcome, aims & setting the scene

Demonstrations & interactive sessions

• Assessing & managing the serious ill child

• Structured approach to the seriously injured child

• Cardiac simulation & skills

Skill & simulation sessions

• Serious illness simulation & skills

• Serious injury simulation & skills

• Cardiac simulation and skills including review and continual assessment