Our online course on the use of an Automatic External Defibrillator for Children (AED) is essential to complete your knowledge as a therapist or educator working with children. Children are often victims of sudden cardiac arrest because of medical conditions which, without prompt use of an automatic external defibrillator (AED), can cause death within minutes.

When a child's heart is experiencing ventricular fibrillation, during the first 5 minutes afterwards, the heart is in a 'special' electrical phase in which the heart's muscles can be treated by an AED, and respond positively; that is to say, the life of the person can - yes - be saved. The problem is that emergency medical personnel rarely arrive during this narrow time -window of opportunity to save a person from death. The average response time for emergency medical services in a typical community is 9 minutes. It is precisely because of this, that AED's are so important, especially if bystanders do not delay and defibrillate immediately within the first four to five minutes following sudden cardiac arrest and then follow up with chest compressions until paramedics arrive. A victim's best chance for survival is when there is revival within 4 minutes.

Our unparalleled Pediatric AED-training curriculum exceeds standards provided by the American Red Cross, National Safety Council, the American Heart Association and other online courses, as our courses have been reviewed by board certified physicians in the field of emergency medicine, pediatrics and neonatology, and because they are specifically geared toward the unique needs of the itinerant and facility based early intervention and pre-school populations - whether they be child or adult.

Our certification course complies with early intervention regulatory health and safety law: General Standard 7, in which providers protect the general health and safety of children with respect to illness, injury, and emergencies, as appropriate to the setting where services are delivered while EI services are provided: "7.1 Providers have written procedures to address child illnesses, including among other criteria, responding to children with allergic reactions, and administration of first aid and CPR if certified or contacting appropriate medical personnel; The General Standard instructs providers with administration of first aid; hence, the appropriateness of documented training and certification with respect to emergency first aid for a child in cardiac arrest with our pediatric AED course prepared by board certified pediatricians, neonatologists, and emergency medicine physicians.

In this informative and interesting course, learn how to follow the simple audio and visual prompts from an AED. Documented successful use of an AED by a ten (10) year old child without any prior training successfully saved the life of victim of sudden cardiac arrest. Learn this valuable life-saving skill with our online AED course. Sign up for our AED online certification course for children, and be prepared to save a life with confidence! Sign up now!

This course meets the Indiana State requirements for the annual credentialing process in the area of “Conferences & Workshops;” Approved as a Core of Knowledge Training  by the  EXCELS Early Childhood Development: Maryland State Department of Education

- This activity is pending approval from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) –

Disclosure: David CSaidoff, has the following relevant financial relationships to disclose: he receives monetary compensation for the preparation of this course, in addition to a percentage of company sales, and has the following relevant non-financial relationships to disclose:EITTOC Board of Directors: volunteer member. Dr. Robert Koppel, M.D.,FAAP, Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics has the following relevant financial relationships to disclose: he receives monetary compensation for the preparation of this course, in addition to a percentage of company sales, and has the following relevant non-financial relationships to disclose: EITTOC Board of Directors: volunteer member. Dr. Josh Lamm, MD has the following relevant financial relationships to disclose: he receives monetary compensation for the preparation of this course, in addition to a percentage of company sales, and has the following relevant non-financial relationships to disclose: EITTOC Board of Directors: volunteer member. Rebecca Stern Lamm, MSW, LCSW has the following relevant financial relationships to disclose: he receives monetary compensation for the preparation of this course, in addition to a percentage of company sales, and has the following relevant non-financial relationships to disclose: EITTOC Board of Directors: volunteer member. Kristen O’Leary, SLP, has the following relevant financial relationships to disclose: she receives monetary compensation for the preparation of this course, in addition to a percentage of company sales, and has the following relevant non-financial relationships to disclose: EITTOC Board of Directors: volunteer member. Declaration: Approval of this course does not necessarily imply that any of the governing bodies (e.g., West Virginian Board of Physical Therapy, or other such governmental or NGO’s supports the views of the presenter or sponsor. Information provided should be used within the scope of practice. No relevant financial or non-financial relationships exists between EITTOC or the products discussed any course; no such relationship or endorsement exists for any products mentioned in any courses sponsored by EITTOC, or in any of the items (such as specific AED or Epinephrine injection product) or any testing instrument used to evaluate children; the above course is specific to said-topic, and may not be extrapolated to any other course or topic outside the scope of this course. Course instructor(s) have no other financial or non-financial remuneration - whether prior to or following course delivery; the above advertisement is made available to all physical therapy (and other) licensee on a non-discriminatory basis. Information provided should be used within scope of practice.