The PALS Course is for healthcare providers who respond to emergencies in infants and children. These include personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units such as physicians, nurses, paramedics and others who need a PALS course completion card for job or other requirements. 

The renewal course is for individuals who have taken PALS previously and incorporate PALS algorithms and ideology in their everyday work practice. Those whose work does not incorporate daily use of PALS algorithms should consider taking the initial course as a renewal.