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.

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This is the ideal course for people who are receiving their EPALS certification for the first time. but can also be 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. 

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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.

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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 may be accepted as Candidates only where this is an established local arrangement.