Advanced Pediatric Life Support (APLS) is a program created by the American Academy of Pediatrics

American Academy of Pediatrics

The American Academy of Pediatrics is the major professional association of pediatricians in the United States. The AAP was founded in 1930 by 35 pediatricians to address pediatric healthcare standards. It currently has 60,000 members in primary care and sub-specialist areas...

 and the American College of Emergency Physicians

American College of Emergency Physicians

The American College of Emergency Physicians is the first and largest professional organization of emergency medicine physicians in the United States. It was founded in 1968 and is now headquartered in Irving, Texas. As of 2009 ACEP has over 28,000 physician members.The college exists to support...

 to teach health care providers how to take care of sick children.

Pediatric assessment triangle

The pediatric assessment triangle is one of the core components of the APLS instruction course. Assessment of a sick child is based on a quick examination of their appearance

Human physical appearance

Human physical appearance refers to the outward phenotype or look of human beings. There are infinite variations in human phenotypes, though society reduces the variability to distinct categories...

, breathing

Breathing

Breathing is the process that moves air in and out of the lungs. Aerobic organisms require oxygen to release energy via respiration, in the form of the metabolism of energy-rich molecules such as glucose. Breathing is only one process that delivers oxygen to where it is needed in the body and...

, and circulation

Circulatory system

The circulatory system is an organ system that passes nutrients , gases, hormones, blood cells, etc...

. The appearance is determined by an examination of tone

Human skin color

Human skin color is primarily due to the presence of melanin in the skin. Skin color ranges from almost black to white with a pinkish tinge due to blood vessels underneath. Variation in natural skin color is mainly due to genetics, although the evolutionary causes are not completely certain...

, how interactive the child is, if they are consolable, their gaze

Gaze

Gaze is a psychoanalytical term brought into popular usage by Jacques Lacan to describe the anxious state that comes with the awareness that one can be viewed. The psychological effect, Lacan argues, is that the subject loses some sense of autonomy upon realizing that he or she is a visible object...

, and the quality of their speech or cry.

Topics discussed

• Pediatric Assessment
• Pediatric Airway in Health and Disease
• Shock
• Cardiovascular System
• Central Nervous System
• Trauma
• Child Maltreatment
• Nontraumatic Surgical Emergencies
• Nontraumatic Orthopedic Emergencies
• Medical Emergencies
• Neonatal Emergencies
• Procedural Sedation and Analgesia
• Children With Special Health Care Needs

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• PALS Essentials
  Pediatric Advanced Life Support
  Pediatric Advanced Life Support is a 2 day American Heart Association training program. The goal of the course is to aid the pediatric healthcare provider in developing the knowledge and skills necessary to efficiently and effectively manage critically ill infants and children, resulting in...
  
  
• ED and Office Preparedness for Pediatric Emergencies
• Metabolic Disease
• Environmental Emergencies
• Toxicology
• Interface With EMS
• Disaster Management
• Preparedness for Acts of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism
• Ambulatory Orthopedics in the ED
• Medical-Legal Considerations
• Imaging Strategies and Considerations
• Office Procedures
• Critical Procedures