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Build skills to save lives

The Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers Classroom Course is designed to provide a wide variety of healthcare professionals the ability to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, provide CPR, use an AED, and relieve choking in a safe, timely and effective manner.

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This course is for healthcare professionals who need to know how to perform CPR, as well as other lifesaving skills, in a variety of in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings. In the classroom, students participate in simulated clinical scenarios and learning stations. Students work with an AHA BLS Instructor to complete BLS skills practice and skills testing. Students also complete a written exam.

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Course Content

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  • Key changes in basic life support, reflecting the new science from the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

  • Critical concepts of high-quality CPR

  • The American Heart Association Chain of Survival

  • 1-Rescuer CPR and AED for adult, child and infant

  • 2-Rescuer CPR and AED for adult, child and infant

  • Differences between adult, child and infant rescue techniques

  • Bag-mask techniques for adult, child and infant

  • Rescue breathing for adult, child and infant

  • Relief of choking for adult, child and infant

  • CPR with an advanced airway: an introduction to the compression/ventilation rate and ratio for a patient who has an advanced airway in place. For more information on advanced airways, please refer to the Airway Management Course.

 

Course Features

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  • Video based course to ensure consistency

  • Instructor led, hands on class format to reinforce skills proficiency

  • Student manual with a new Pocket Reference Card, designed to provide quick emergency information to the rescuer at any time.

  • Updated Science based content

 

Certification

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American Heart Association BLS for Healthcare Providers Course Completion Card is valid for two years. 
 

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