European Paediatric Advanced Life Support (EPALS)

EPALS is a certified course of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) intended for all healthcare professionals who can be expected to get involved in the care of a critically ill child in the first 30–60 minutes (newborn, infant, older child), either in hospital or in pre-hospital care. The course aims to provide participants with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary to care for a child with respiratory or circulatory failure due to various causes and to prevent the progression of a critical condition to cardiac arrest. The teaching emphasizes teamwork skills in resuscitation teamwork, leadership, communication, and cooperation among health care professionals.

The course is designed exclusively for healthcare professionals who may perform or teach extended emergency resuscitation in children in routine clinical practice or provide treatment to critically ill children as part of their job. The most frequent participants of the course are physicians of all specialities, especially emergency medicine, anaesthesiology and intensive care physicians, as well as paramedics and nurses working in intensive care or resuscitation units, operating theatres, hospital emergency rooms or ambulance services.

Participation in the course is conditional on clinical practice and completed medical education, e.g. completed studies at a university or higher vocational school of health care, secondary medical school or medical faculty (an exception may be granted only to students of the 5th and 6th years of the Faculty of Medicine if their number in the course does not exceed 10 % of the total number of participants).

Course price: CZK 16,500
Course capacity: 24 persons
Course time: 08:00–18:00
Organized by: Department of Simulation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, MU
Guaranteed by: Prof. Petr Štourač, MD, Ph.D., MBA, FESAIC

The event is organized by the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University.

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