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Class Registration
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - INITIAL
Date/Time: Fri 7/10/2026 at 9:00 AM
Location: CPR Center
Class Price: $165.00

The initial course is for students who have never taken an American Heart Association PALS course before or who have not been certified in an American Heart Association PALS course within the last two years.

Target Audience:

The PALS course is intended for healthcare providers who respond to emergencies in infants and children and for personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units. Please contact your employer to ensure that you are selecting the correct course.

What does this course teach?

  • High‐quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) per American Heart Association (AHA) basic life support (BLS) recommendations
  • Difference between patients who do and do not require immediate intervention
  • Early recognition of cardiopulmonary arrest
  • Team dynamics
  • Difference between respiratory distress and failure
  • Early interventions for respiratory distress and failure
  • Compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock
  • Early interventions for the treatment of shock
  • Clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
  • Post–cardiac arrest management

Requirements: Students must pass a written test and a skills test to successfully complete the course. Completion of the AHA’s PALS Precourse Self-Assessment with a score of at least 70% is required prior to the day of the course. More information is provided on the class registration page and in the course confirmation email.

Course Length: 9:00am-5:00pm

Course Completion Cards:

Upon completion of all course requirements, participants receive a Provider Course Completion eCard which is valid for two years.

CEUs:

The American Heart Association is not an accrediting agency. Please contact your accrediting body to see if they will accept/award CE credits for this or any other AHA course you complete successfully. That authority comes from accrediting bodies. For example, the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) approves many of our courses for CE credits for nurses. In the same way, other accrediting bodies may award credits for this or any other AHA course. Your HR department may also be able to help you identify sources for CE credits.

Would you like to add a Student Manual, Reference Card Set, or ECC Handbook? (Purchasing study materials is highly recommended for first time students or those who have let their cards expire. These materials can be used to prepare for the course, during the course, and while testing.) Please also indicate if you need the BLS Provider Course.

Contact Information

CPR Center
801 South 21st Street
Fort Smith, AR 72901
Phone: 479-785-1578 [email protected]

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Monday-Friday
8:00am - 5:00pm


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