HeartCode PALS

HeartCode 2025 PALS is a self-directed, comprehensive eLearning program that uses adaptive learning technology to allow learners to acquire and demonstrate Pediatric Advanced Life Support skills using a personalized learning path that adapts in real time to a learner’s performance. The program is designed for healthcare professionals who need Pediatric Advanced Life Support training for their clinical duties. 

HeartCode PALS consists of a cognitive portion that is completed online. A separate psychomotor skills assessment using voice assisted manikins with real-time audio and visual feedback or a skills assessment with an AHA Instructor is required to earn a valid AHA PALS Provider eCard that is valid for two years.

Students who successfully complete the online portion of the course receive a certificate granting them access to a PALS Hands-on Session with an AHA PALS Instructor. Hands-on Skills testing includes child 1-rescuer CPR, child bag mask device, infant 1- and 2-rescuer CPR, and relief of choking (optional). Students must successfully complete both the online portion and the hands-on session to receive a PALS Provider course completion card.

Learn more and register at the WSU HeartCode PALS store.

If you require technical assistance with registration or online content please contact [email protected].

1. High-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
2. Differentiation between patients who do require and do not require immediate interventions
3. Performance as a high-performance team member
4. Differentiation between respiratory distress and respiratory failure
5. Management of respiratory distress and respiratory failure
6. Differentiation between compensated and hypotensive (decompensated) shock
7. Differentiation between types of shock
8. Early interventions for the treatment of shock
9. Bradycardic and tachycardic rhythms
10. Clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
11. Cardiac arrest and post-cardiac arrest management

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The material presented in this continuing medical education program is being made available for educational purposes only. This material is not intended to represent the best or only methods or procedures appropriate for the medical situation discussed; rather the material is intended to present an approach, view, statement, or opinion of the authors or presenters, which may be helpful or of interest to other practitioners. This program does not represent or speak on behalf of Washington State University and/ or Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. Participants should carefully consider all available scientific data before acting on knowledge gained through this activity.