PALS Reference Cards

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) provides critical training to Canadian healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in managing respiratory and/or cardiovascular emergencies and cardiopulmonary arrest in pediatric patients. The Heart & Stroke PALS Reference Card is updated to reflect new science in the 2020 Guidelines for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).  

This card is a convenient, quick-reference tool healthcare professionals can access during the PALS course and various healthcare settings.  

This card includes the following information for quick access by healthcare providers:

• Vital Signs in Children
• PALS Systematic Approach Algorithm
• Pediatric Septic Shock Algorithm
• Drugs used in PALS
• Pediatric Color-Coded Length-Based Resuscitation Tape
• Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Algorithm
• Doses/Details for the Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Algorithm
• Pediatric Bradycardia with a Pulse Algorithm
• Pediatric Tachycardia with a Pulse Algorithm
• PALS Management of Shock After ROSC Algorithm