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Basic Life Support

for Healthcare Providers

Intended Audience:

The American Heart Association’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-hospital and out-of-hospital settings.

Time: ~4.5 hours
AHA Reference Link

Objectives Include:

• High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
• BLS concepts from the Chain of Survival
• Delivering effective breaths or ventilations
• Importance of early use of and how to use an AED
• Performance as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
• Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults, children, and infants

Notes:
A 25 question, multiple choice test is administered at the end of class that requires a passing score of 84% to complete the class.

 Advanced Cardiac Life Support

for Healthcare Providers

Intended Audience:
For healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiac arrest, stroke, or other cardiopulmonary emergencies. This includes personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, critical care/intensive care, and surgery such as Physicians, Nurses, and Paramedics, as well as others who need an ACLS course completion card for a job or other requirement.

Time: 8.50 – 9.50 hours
AHA Reference Link

Objectives Include:

• Systematic approach (assessment)
• High-quality BLS
• Airway management
• Rhythm recognition
• Defibrillation
• Intravenous (IV)/intraosseous (IO) access (information only)
• Use of medications
• Cardioversion
• Transcutaneous pacing
• High-performance teams

Notes:
BLS is strongly emphasized during this class. Strong BLS Skills are necessary. Therefore, a current BLS card is required. EKG interpretation is required; it is not taught in this course. Reviewing EKG interpretation is recommended. Knowledge of ACLS pharmacology is discussed in depth. Reviewing these drugs before class is strongly recommended.
A 50 question, multiple choice test is administered at the end of class that requires a passing score of 84% to complete the class.

 Pediatric Advanced Life Support

for Healthcare Providers

Intended Audience:
For healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiac arrest, stroke, or other cardiopulmonary emergencies in infant and pediatric populations. This includes personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, critical care/intensive care, and surgery such as Physicians, Nurses, and Paramedics, as well as others who need a PALS course completion card for a job or other requirement.

Time: 8.75 hours
AHA Reference Link

Objectives Include:

• Perform high‐quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) per American Heart Association (AHA) basic life support (BLS) recommendations
• Differentiate between patients who do and do not require immediate intervention
• Recognize cardiopulmonary arrest early and begin CPR within 10 seconds
• Apply team dynamics
• Differentiate between respiratory distress and failure
• Perform early interventions for respiratory distress and failure
• Differentiate between compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock
• Perform early interventions for the treatment of shock
• Differentiate between unstable and stable patients with arrhythmias
• Describe clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
• Implement post–cardiac arrest management

Notes:
BLS is strongly emphasized during this class. Strong BLS Skills are necessary. Therefore, a current BLS card is required. EKG interpretation is required; it is not taught in this course. Reviewing EKG interpretation is recommended. Knowledge of PALS pharmacology is discussed in depth. Reviewing these drugs before class is strongly recommended.
A 50 question, multiple choice test is administered at the end of class that requires a passing score of 84% to complete the class.

 First Aid / CPR / AED

Intended Audience:
The CPR AED Course is designed for anyone with little or no medical training who needs an OSHA-compliant course completion card for CPR training—or anyone who simply wants to be ready to respond in an emergency.

The First Aid Course  is designed for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a first aid training to meet job, regulatory, or licensing requirements. Please contact your employer to ensure that you are selecting the correct course.

Total:  ~3.5 hours
AHA Reference Link

Objectives Include:

• Signs of a Heart Attack or Stroke
• Adult, Child, and Infant CPR and AED use
• Choking help for an Adult, Child, and Infant
• First aid basics
• Medical emergencies
• Injury emergencies
• Environmental emergencies
• Preventing illness and injury
• Choking help for an Adult, Child,and Infant
• Drowning response and prevention
• Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies

First Aid (no CPR)

Intended Audience:

First Aid is designed for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a first aid training to meet job, regulatory, or licensing requirements. Please contact your employer to ensure that you are selecting the correct course.

Total:  ~2.25 hour
AHA Reference Link

Objectives Include:

• First aid basics
• Medical emergencies
• Injury emergencies
• Environmental emergencies
• Preventing illness and injury
• Choking help for an Adult, Child or Infant
• Drowning response and prevention
• Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies
• No CPR Instruction offered in this course

If you need First Aid and CPR training, please see First Aid / CPR / AED 

Pediatric First Aid / CPR / AED

Intended Audience:

This Pediatric First Aid CPR AED Course is for anyone responsible for the care and safety of children and infants, especially those who may need to respond in an emergency before professional help arrives. Please contact your employer to ensure that you are selecting the correct course.

Ideal for:

• Childcare workers
• Teachers and school staff
• Camp counselors
• Coaches, parents, and other caregivers

Total:  ~4 hours
AHA Reference Link

Objectives Include:

Learn how to respond to common childhood illnesses and injuries—such as bleeding, burns, allergic reactions, breathing problems, and more—along with serious conditions like shock, seizures, head or spinal injuries, and drowning response and prevention.

Training also includes CPR, AED use, and choking relief for infants and children

No Adult Topics Discussed in this Course