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.
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The course is run through the UK and cost varies across centres. See more information.
The °µÍø½ûÇø has endorsed this blended learning product from 31 October 2020 to 30 October 2022, in accordance with the current °µÍø½ûÇø endorsement guidelines.
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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
Downloads
Apls factsheet.pdf1.17 MB