BLS - ACLS - PALS

In conjunction with the American Heart Association, Grove City Medical Center is offering  Basic Life Support (BLS),  Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)  and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) courses  for healthcare providers. The courses are intended for use by licensed and certified healthcare professionals and open not only to hospital personnel, but also to the community.  At the end of a course the participant will receive a card denoting certification in the respective area.

BLS
ACLS
PALS

For additional information, please call:
Karen Rogers at 724-450-7188.

Basic Life Support - BLS

The course will teach you:

  • how to recognize and respond to life-threatening emergencies such as cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, and choking;
  • how to recognize heart attack and stroke in adults and breathing difficulty in children;
  • skills needed to respond to emergencies;
  • skills of CPR for victims of all ages (including ventilation with barrier devices and bag-mask devices);
  • how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED);

 

ACLS Provider Course

The course  uses a case-based teaching approach. Your instructor will expect you to learn the critical assessment-management actions for several core cases by conducting the Primary and Secondary ABCD Surveys and implementing the algorithms.

Key ACLS skills are:

  • Use of conventional defibrillator/monitors for defibrillation and cardioversion;
  • Use of transcutaneous pacing devices;
  • Advanced airway management, including the use of the Combitube, laryngeal mask airway, and tracheal tube;
  • Use of qualitative and quantitative end-tidal CO2 measurement devices;
  • Use of esophageal detector devices;
  • Application and use of commercial tracheal tube holders and a generic technique based on adhesive tape, umbilical ties, and benzoin;
  • Recognition of cardiac arrest rhythms and the most common types of bradycardia and trachycardia.

 

PALS Provider Course

The functional survival of critically ill and injured children is influenced by the provision of timely and appropriate pediatric emergency care in both prehospital and hospital environments.  The course manual (2002) resulted from a thorough revision of the science of Pediatric Advanced Life Support and uses case-based scenarios.

The core content modules of the course contain material that is essential  for the resuscitation of any ill or injured children, and  therefore represents a common learning objective for all course participants.

Supplemental module topics include children with special healthcare needs, toxicology, the newborn, trauma and spinal immobilization, coping with death, procedural sedation, and rapid sequence intubation. Your instructor will choose supplemental module topics according to the specific needs of the course participants.