BASIC LIFE SUPPORT for Health Care Professionals
The American Heart Association’s (AHA) BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. Reflects science and education from the AHA guidelines update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).
Class Time: 4 to 5 hours
Who should take this course?
The AHA’s BLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.
Heartsaver CPR/AED
The Heartsaver CPR AED course trains participants to give CPR, and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC)
Class Time: 3 hours
Who Should take the course?
This course is designed for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.
What does this course teach?
– Describe how high-quality CPR improves survival
– Explain the concept of the Chain of Survival
– Recognize when someone needs CPR
– Perform high-quality CPR for an adult and a child
– Describe how to perform CPR with help from others
– Give effective breaths using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
– Demonstrate how to use an AED on an adult, child, and infant
– Describe when and how to help a choking adult, child and infant
*Child and infant modules area optional.
Heartsaver First Aid
The Heartsaver First Aid course trains participants in first aid basics for the most common first aid emergencies, including how to recognize them, how to call for help, and how to perform life-saving skills. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) and the 2015 AHA/Red Cross Guidelines for First Aid.
Class Time: 4 hours
Who should take this course?
The AHA Heartsaver First Aid Course is designed for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in first aid to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.
What does this course teach?
– First aid basics
– Medical emergencies
– Injury emergencies
– Environmental emergencies
– Preventing illness and injury
Family & Friends CPR
The Family & Friends CPR Course teaches the life-saving skills of adult Hands-Only CPR, adult CPR with breaths, child CPR with breaths, adult and child AED use, infant CPR, and mild and severe airway block for adults, children, and infants. Skills are taught in a dynamic group environment using the AHA’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which provides students with the most hands-on CPR practice time possible.
Class Time: 3 hours