EPALS is an advanced course that trains healthcare professionals in the early recognition of the child in respiratory or circulatory failure and management of a cardiac arrest. EPALS provides the knowledge and skills needed to prevent further deterioration and help to save young lives.
DurationEPALS is an advanced course that trains healthcare professionals in the early recognition of the child in respiratory or circulatory failure and management of a cardiac arrest. EPALS provides the knowledge and skills needed to prevent further deterioration and help to save young lives.
The EPALS course is a collaboration between Resuscitation Council UK and the European Resuscitation Council. It is endorsed by the Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health (RCPCH) and approved by the Royal Colleges of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), and Anaesthetics (RCoA), as well as the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists (APAGBI).
General information
EPALS launched in 2003. Around 3,500 candidates a year train in EPALS, which uses evidence-based guidelines to ensure healthcare professionals have the most relevant knowledge needed to treat the deteriorating child in respiratory or circulatory failure and cardiac arrest.
This is the ideal course for people who are receiving their EPALS certification for the first time. It is also used as a recertification course.
Over two days, you’ll enhance your practical skills with simulations and workshops, and broaden your understanding of EPALS with lectures and skill stations.
During the course, you will develop the knowledge and skills required to:
Recognise and manage the deteriorating child using a structured ABCDE approach;
Deliver standardised CPR in children;
Manage the critically ill child, including those in cardiac arrest, by working with a multidisciplinary team in an emergency situation;
Become an effective and confident team member and leader by utilizing non-technical skills.
Who is the course for?
The EPALS course is designed for healthcare professionals who need skills in managing deteriorating patients and cardiac arrests. It is for individuals who use skills in advanced paediatric life support as part of their clinical duties, as well as those who teach on a regular basis. This includes doctors, nurses and paramedics.
All applicants must hold a current clinical appointment. They must also hold, or be in training for, a professional healthcare qualification. Medical students in their final year of training can be accepted as Candidates if this is an established local arrangement.
Curriculum map
The Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) Advanced Life Support (ALS) course is relevant to healthcare professionals, including foundation and specialist trainees, nursing staff and allied health professionals.
This curriculum map has been produced by the RCUK to illustrate the potential key capabilities that may be achieved when undertaking or instructing on an ALS course.
indicates a capability highly likely to be achieved and ( ) indicates a capability that might be achieved by attending or instructing on the relevant RCUK course. Any capability achieved during a RCUK course will need to be accompanied by appropriate supporting evidence, and this responsibility lies with the individual.
This list is not exhaustive and other capabilities may be achieved based upon individual experiences.
Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health (RCPCH) Progress+
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Royal College of Emergency Medicine 2021 Curriculum
Curriculum
Clinical syllabus
Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine 2021 ICM Curriculum
Curriculum
High-level learning outcome
Appendix
Royal College of Anaesthetists - 2021 Anaesthetic Curriculum
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
Scope of professional practice
Standards of proficiency for registered nurses
Annex A and B
Course structure and programme
Pre course preparation:
This is a two day face-to-face course, and it will take place in a Resuscitation Council UK Course Centre.
All of our Course Centres are approved and certified by Resuscitation Council UK. Courses are run by dedicated and qualified Instructors, who have taken an RCUK Instructor course to guarantee that our courses are uniform and the content remains the same across our Course Centres.
Before your course, you will be registered on our Learning Management System (LMS). Here, you can access course modules, a pre-course multiple choice question (MCQ) paper.
Candidates will receive their course manual one month before the course. Candidates are expected to read the manual in preparation for the course and submit a completed pre-course MCQ paper before the course begins.
Programme:
Over the two days, candidates will take part in lectures, interactive workshops, skill stations and simulations focusing on deteriorating children with paediatric illnesses, cardiac arrest management and trauma.
Assessment and certification:
During the course, Candidates will be continuously assessed based on their performance in clinical simulations. You will be expected to show competency in the core skills of the course, including management of the critically ill/injured child, airway management, high quality CPR and defibrillation, and cardiac arrest management.
The course ends with a final assessment, consisting of a simulation and an MCQ paper.
Candidates who successfully complete the course will be awarded with a Resuscitation Council UK EPALS certificate, which is valid for four years and recognised in healthcare settings in the UK and Europe.
This course is recognised as continuing professional development (CPD) by the Medical, Dental and Nursing Royal Colleges and Health Care Professional Council. Please contact your registering body for further information.
Recertification
If your course certificate has expired, you can recertify by taking a course within twelve months of your certificate expiry date.
To recertify, you simply need to take the second day of a standard EPALS course. When you contact the Course Centre to book your place on a course, make sure you let them know that you’re looking to recertify.
About us
Resuscitation Council UK is saving lives by developing guidelines, influencing policy, delivering courses and supporting cutting-edge research. Through education, training and research, we’re working towards the day when everyone in the country has the skills they need to save a life.
Our vision
Resuscitation Council UK’s core mission is to ensure that everyone who has a cardiac arrest has access to appropriate cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
We have four key aims that we are determined to achieve in partnership across the resuscitation community and with other key stakeholders:
Everyone should receive appropriate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) treatment in clinical, community and care settings, underpinned by the comprehensive availability of evidence-based clinical guidelines, training and life-long learning.
Survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest match world-leading comparators.
Everyone affected by involvement in a Cardiac Arrest (CA) and the provision of cardiopulmonary resuscitation receives appropriate, personalised support.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation has become a mechanism to reduce social inequalities, not another measure of them.
For us, these goals mean equipping health and social care professionals with cutting-edge, evidence-based resuscitation guidelines and training, as well as ensuring members of the public learn CPR skills, so more people are given a chance of survival in an emergency.
It also means developing support services for all those involved in, or impacted by, resuscitation. We care about ensuring resuscitation preferences are respected, so it means seeing conversations that support CPR decision-making normalised through shared decision-making processes such as ReSPECT.
And as the inequalities in survival rates are unacceptable to us, it means developing greater understanding of why there are differences in attitudes and public access to CPR training, disparities in access to defibrillators, and how we can work with others to change this.
Achieving change on this scale will be a big challenge. It will need to be achieved by working with a wide spectrum of partners, listening to people with their own experience of cardiac arrest or CPR decision making and engaging the entire resuscitation community.
This course is an apprenticeship, a job with training for new and existing staff employed in a schooland in a teaching support role for example, teaching assistant, learning support assistant,pastoral/welfare support assistant, etc.
We believe in only teaching necessary content, which means everything you learn will be practical and easy to apply. We’re very flexible with course times and schedules,
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