Healtcare Provider, American Heart Association CPR Training
Iteam # ABFA Price: Vary by group size
The BLS Healthcare Provider Course is designed to prepare a wide variety of healthcare professionals 
to recognize several life-threatening emergencies and to provide CPR, use an AED, and relieve choking in a safe, timely, and effective manner. This course includes adult, child, and infant rescue skills in both the out-of-hospital and in-hospital settings. Anyone who needs to know how to perform CPR in a healthcare setting can take this course. Course is taught by lecture, video and student participation.
| Information Covered |
- Steps to CPR
- When to start CPR
- When to give breaths, including with barrier devices
- When to check a pulse
- How to give compressions at the proper depth and rate and with complete chest recoil
- When to use an AED
- The signs and actions for severe airway obstruction in the responsive and unresponsive victim
- The links of the Chain of Survival
- Activating the appropriate emergency response system
- Performing CPR
- Providing early defibrillation
- Ensuring the arrival of early advanced care by activating 9-1-1
- Describe the signs of 4 common life-threatening emergencies in adults
- Cardiac Arrest
- Choking
- Stroke
- Heart Attack
| Learn and Demonstrate the Following Skills |
- Activating the emergency response system
- Giving breaths for adult, child, and infant victims
- Mouth-to-mouth ventilation
- Mouth-to-mask ventilation
- Bag-mask ventilation
- Giving compressions for adult, child, and infant victims
- Performing 1-and-2 rescuer CPR for adult, child, and infant victims
- Using an AED for victims >1 year of age
- Relieving choking in the responsive and unresponsive victim of any age
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to recognize several life-threatening emergencies and to provide CPR, use an AED, and relieve choking in a safe, timely, and effective manner. This course includes adult, child, and infant rescue skills in both the out-of-hospital and in-hospital settings. Anyone who needs to know how to perform CPR in a healthcare setting can take this course. Course is taught by lecture, video and student participation.