BLS Renewal

Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers 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. This course teaches the skills of CPR for victims of all ages, including ventilation with a barrier device, use of an AED on adults and children, and relief of foreign body airway obstruction in responsive and non-responsive victims.

Topics include:

• Critical concedpts of high-quality CPR.

• The American Heart Association Chain of Survival.

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

• Differences between adult, child, and infant rescue techniques.

• Bag Valve Mask (BVM) techniques for adult, child, and infant.

• Rescue breathing for adult, child, and infant.

• Relief of choking for adult, child, and infant.

• CPR with an advance airway.

• Compression/ventilation rate and ratio for a patient who has an advanced airway in place.

BLS (Basic Life Support) is the CPR/AED course required by most states for any medical professional or student enrolled in school for a healthcare profession (MD, CNA, RN, EMT, Phlebotomist, etc.). If you work as a healthcare provider in you are required to carry a current BLS card*.

*where required