APLS Advanced Paediatric Life Support

Advance Life Support Group’s (ALSG) clinical education & training programmes improve outcomes for people in life-threatening situations, anywhere along the health care pathway, anywhere in the world.

 

The APLS course provides the knowledge and skills necessary for recognition and effective treatment and stabilisation of children with life threatening emergencies, using a structured, sequential approach.

 

APLS aims to teach and assess the acquisition and use of technical skills. In addition, the course considers communication and other human factors, which are key to generating the highest quality and safest health care provision.

 

Course structure and programme

 

The APLS course is delivered in the UK as a standard 2-day face-to-face course which includes an additional 1-day flexible online component (VLE). The course is run at the Whittington Education Centre.

 

The online learning elements of the course deliver the knowledge components, preparing participants for the practical application of this knowledge during the face-to-face course.

 

2-day face-to-face course incorporates updated lectures and clinical simulations covering the following:

 

APLS is an advanced course, and we strongly recommend that candidates have already acquired basic paediatric life support skills on a course such as e-PILS before applying for and attending an APLS course. International graduates may also benefit from undertaking e-PILS prior to APLS to become familiar with simulation.