Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers

The American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, perform high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations, and use an AED early.

This course is intended for healthcare professionals operating in and out of the hospital, from EMTs and Paramedics, to Nurses and CNAs, Respiratory and Physical Therapists, and other healthcare personnel.

The course teaches you to provide high-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants, and covers a range of topics, including:

• The Cardiac Chain of Survival
• How to operate an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
• Ventilations with a pocket mask and bag valve mask (BVM)
• One- and two-person resuscitation
• Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction / choking in adults and infants

Course completion is dependent on skills demonstration and passing the written exam.