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AHA Classes

OSHA compliant.Basic Life Support (BLS)

  • The AHA’s 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 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).
  • 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.

Is AHA BLS the right course for me?

  • BLS is geared towards prehospital providers, like EMTs, paramedics, fire fighters, and in-facility hospital providers. Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a course completion card, valid for two years. Please contact your employer to ensure that you are selecting the correct course.

What does this course teach?

  • High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
  • The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components
  • Important early use of an AED
  • Effective ventilations using a barrier device
  • Importance of teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR
  • Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants
  • This is a minimum 3 hour class with 2 year certification

 

AHA Heart Saver CPR/First Aid/AED

  • This class is geared toward the Daycare workers, Babysitters, general public and can be customized to fit your needs.

What does this course teach?

  • High quality CPR for adults, children and infants
  • The AHA Chain of Survival (pre-hospitalization)
  • Important early use of an AED
  • Effective ventilations using mouth-to-mouth and pocket mask
  • Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (chocking) for adults, children and infants
  • Effective First Aid techniques
  • Responding to allergic reactions, heart attack, fainting, strokes, seizures
  • Personal Safety (exposure to blood and removing gloves properly)
  • How to dress burns and electrical injuries
  • How to react to heat and cold related Emergencies
  • and more……
  • This is a minimum 4 hour class with 2 year certification.