PeRLS: Perioperative Resuscitation and Life Support Certificate

Now with a Physical Resuscitation option!

Keep care team members' skills up to date with highly rated, anesthesia-centric advanced life support, resuscitation, and crisis management. PeRLS provides basic life support support (BLS) training and knowledge evaluation specific to anesthesiologists and the perioperative care team. Take the new PeRLS with Physical Resuscitation pathway to meet both BLS and ACLS requirements.

Dr. David Stahl, a member of the editorial board, outlines the key distinctions between PeRLS and ACLS, emphasizing why PeRLS is preferred by anesthesiologists.

Streamlined, specialized cardiac life support training

Focus on issues unique to patients under anesthesia or in the perioperative setting to efficiently advance skills. Rather than revisiting skills anesthesia care team members practice every day, PeRLS concentrates on low-frequency, high-impact events that can make the biggest difference when the stakes are highest.

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What you can expect from PeRLS

This content-rich course emphasizes critical thinking and real-world perioperative scenarios for the best possible patient outcomes.

Through challenging scenarios, interactive activities, access to algorithms, knowledge checks, and a post-test, you'll learn to identify uncommon cardiac conditions and rescue patients in crisis in the perioperative setting.

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PeRLS—A module-based program that incorporates challenging scenarios, interactive activities, access to algorithms, knowledge checks, and a post-test. You'll learn to identify uncommon cardiac conditions and rescue patients in crisis in the perioperative setting.
PeRLS with Physical Resuscitation Bundle—The full PeRLS program plus an additional module focused on proper chest compressions, to help you meet BLS requirements.

Earn 5.75 or 6.25 CME, depending upon the pathway selected.

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What your peers are saying

“Convenient to work through at my own pace/during down time and content was very relevant.”

"Real life and realistic scenarios for rare processes.”

“Very helpful in framing different aspects of cardiac arrest and pre-arrest states.”

"Better than an ACLS class for anesthesiologists, since it is more relevant and has more advanced management issues."