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Learning Objectives

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Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, the provider shall be able to:

  • Perform high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
  • Decide when to perform emergency interventions for a patient.
  • Recognize cardiac arrest and perform CPR within 10 seconds. 
  • Fulfill their role as team leader or a member of a high-performance resuscitation team.
  • Assess for and identify respiratory distress and respiratory failure.
  • Provide appropriate treatments for respiratory distress and respiratory failure.
  • Distinguish compensated shock from decompensated shock.
  • Identify and assess pediatric patients in shock.
  • Distinguish pediatric patients with hemodynamically stable cardiac arrhythmias from those with unstable cardiac arrhythmias.
  • Discuss the clinical condition of pediatric patients with unstable arrhythmias.
  • Perform post-cardiac arrest care.