European Paediatric Advanced Life Support (EPALS) in English

The EPALS course is a European Resuscitation Council (ERC) certified course and is intended for all healthcare professionals who can be expected to be 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 aim of the course is to equip 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 and 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 duties. The most frequent participants of the course are physicians of all specialties, 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 year of the Faculty of Medicine if their number in the course does not exceed 10% of the total number of participants).

Course price: 16 500 CZK
Course capacity: 24 persons
Course time: 08:00-18:00
Organizer: Department of Simulation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, MU
Guarantor: prof. MUDr. Petr Štourač, Ph.D., MBA, FESAIC

Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, is the organizer of the event.

REGISTRATION WILL OPEN ON TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 9.00 AM