Date: September 24-25, 2026
Location:
Cook Children’s Medical Center
801 7th Ave, Fort Worth TX 7611
The Pediatric Advanced Transport Course (PATC) is a two-day educational experience focused on the assessment, stabilization, and transport of critically ill and injured neonatal and pediatric patients. Employing didactic and practical methods of learning will allow you to:
- Describe the professional responsibilities associated with neonatal and pediatric patient transport.
- Identify the importance of early recognition of critically ill and injured neonatal and pediatric patients.
- Demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary for the assessment and management of neonatal and pediatric patients during transport.
- Apply evidence-based transport principles through hands-on skills, including ventilator management, umbilical line placement, needle decompression, intraosseous (IO) placement, and patient assessment scenarios.
PRICING
ASTNA/I-CAPP Member | Non-Member |
$555 | $695 |
What Will I Learn as a Pediatric Transport Professional?
The didactic portion of the course, completed online prior to the in-person session, is designed to strengthen participants' knowledge of the pathophysiology, assessment, and management of trauma.
Course topics include, but are not limited to:
- Transport Physiology
- Legal Aspects of Critical Care
- Disaster and Mass-Casualty Incidents
- Anatomy, Physiology, Growth, and Development
- Neonatal and High-Risk Obstetrics
- Pediatric Airway and Ventilation
- Pulmonary Disorders
- Cardiac Disorders
- Shock and Sepsis
- Burns
- Neurologic and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Trauma and Non-Accidental Trauma
- Abdominal and Genitourinary Disorders
- Renal Disorders
- Endocrine Disorders
- Hematology and Oncology
- Solid Organ Transplantation
What Are the Teaching Methods?
This is a hybrid course. All PATC didactic lectures must be completed online before attending the course. Proof of completion is required upon course check-in.
As part of the hybrid format, you will need to complete all of the PATC Online Modules and the final course assessment prior to attending the in-person portion of the course. The in-person portion is subject to cancellation depending on enrollment so please take this into account when making travel arrangements and consider refundable options. In the unlikely event of cancellation, ASTNA will notify students no later than one month prior to the course date.
*There is a six-month grace period from the time your provider status expires before you need to re-verify. Reverification can be done through the Online PATC or through an In-Person PATC.
Please contact the ASTNA Office at astna@astna.org or 1-855-ASTNA-RN (1-855-278-6276) if you have any questions.