A half-day paediatric refresher: scenarios, drug calculations and reassessment.
$375 / person inc. GSTHalf day8 planned learning hours
Who it's for and prerequisites
Clinicians who completed a paediatric advanced life support course within the last 18 months.
Prerequisite: A paediatric ALS certificate dated within the last 18 months. Preparation: About 4 hours of online refresher learning, finished before the day.
Learning outcomes
Apply any changes in current ANZCOR paediatric guidelines
Give high-quality infant and child CPR
Defibrillate a child safely with weight-based energy
Lead a paediatric resuscitation with accurate weight-based dosing
Online preparation
Planned total: 240 minutes. Complete before the practical session.
Module
Minutes
Content
What's changed
30
Paediatric guideline updates since your last course
The seriously unwell child
60
ABCDE assessment, respiratory and circulatory failure
The paediatric ALS algorithm
45
Defibrillation, drug timing and arrhythmias
Dose calculations
60
Weight estimation and cognitive aids
Theory exam
45
Multiple-choice, 80% to pass
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Your training day
Use the timetable as a delivery plan. Adapt scenarios to participants' roles and equipment. 1 educator for every 8 participants.
Start
Session and content
Format
08:00
Welcome and what's changed Guideline updates and questions
Briefing
08:15
Skills check Infant and child CPR on feedback manikins, paediatric defibrillation
Skills station
08:45
Doses and access Weight estimation, cognitive aids, IO access
Workshop
09:15
Team scenarios Respiratory arrest, shock and arrest rhythms with rotating roles
Simulation and debrief
10:15
Break
10:30
Assessment Each participant leads one assessed paediatric scenario
Assessment
11:45
Debrief, reflection and close Feedback, reflection, refresher planning and certificates. Finish at 12:15
Debrief
Assessment criteria
Theory exam (online): multiple-choice including dose calculations, 80% to pass
Effective infant and child CPR
Safe paediatric defibrillation
Leading a simulated paediatric resuscitation independently
Observe skills throughout, coach specifically and record individual outcomes. Use an approved checklist for each practical assessment. The 80% theory threshold, where listed, is our proposed course standard.
Certificate rules
Participants who meet every assessment criterion receive a certificate of competency showing the course, date, CPD hours and guideline version. Anyone who doesn't receives a certificate of attendance with specific feedback, and can be reassessed at a later session at no charge.
Certificate acceptance and refresher intervals depend on the employer and professional body. Contact us before attending if a participation adjustment is needed.
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Running the course
Group: On-site minimum 6. Up to 8 with one educator, up to 16 with two. Educators: 1 educator for every 8 participants.
Venue: A room for one or two scenario stations, or your own treatment area.
Equipment
Infant and child feedback manikins
Training defibrillator with paediatric pads
Paediatric airway equipment, IO trainer and dosing aids
Requirements this design supports
Maintaining paediatric resuscitation competence, with refresher intervals set by the employer
NSQHS Standard 8, Action 8.11: maintaining paediatric advanced life support competence
Training supports skills and records. It does not by itself certify workplace compliance or guarantee employer acceptance.
CPD: 8 planned learning hours. [Accreditation pending] RACGP activity ID: [Activity ID pending] · ACRRM activity ID: [Activity ID pending].
Educator preparation and quality checks
Review current algorithms and local policies, check equipment and hygiene, prepare role-specific scenarios and assessment checklists, and confirm learner prerequisites. Record results, give individual feedback and use learner feedback to improve the next session. This outline is a delivery plan; it must be accompanied by original slides, online modules, scenarios and assessment tools.
Guideline references
ANZCOR Guidelines 12.1 to 12.5 – Paediatric Advanced Life Support
ANZCOR Guideline 10.2 – Advanced Life Support (ALS) Training
Design based on ANZCOR guidance checked 7 October 2026. Confirm the current version at anzcor.org before every delivery. No drug-dose tables are reproduced in this outline.
Based in Melbourne. Training across Victoria, and interstate for the right group. Travel within metropolitan Melbourne is included. Regional and interstate travel is quoted before you book. Contact: hello@respondlifesupport.com · [Phone TBC].