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Basic Life
Support (BLS)
Basic Life Support
is
the first of its kind in the AHA’s lifesaving training portfolio, designed
specifically to meet the needs of the EMS market.
Through case-based scenarios, interactive activities and videos, this course
teaches the concepts of both single-rescuer and team basic life support.
Healthcare professionals who need to know how to perform CPR, as well as
other lifesaving skills, in a wide variety of in-hospital and
out-of-hospital settings.
BLS delivering hands-on instruction that enhances performance and improves
outcomes in the field.
Primary Audience: Prehospital, emergency care professionals including
emergency medical technicians (EMTs), police officers, fire fighters,
paramedics and advanced EMTs (AEMTs)
Secondary Audience: Athletic trainers, any/all other first responders
Features
- Course is tailored to providers
working in the field. All scenarios are modeled after real-life
experiences that they may actually face.
- High-quality team CPR focus
teaches how to conduct a code with teams ranging from 2-6 people.
- Introduces the concept of post-case
debriefing to BLS Instructors.
- Develops Core Course Segments that
provide the opportunity for Medical Directors to tailor the course to
local response protocols
Course Content
- The most current science from the 2010 AHA Guidelines
for CPR and ECC
- Critical concepts of high-quality CPR
- The American Heart Association Chain
of Survival
- 1-Rescuer CPR and AED for adult, child
and infant
- 2-Rescuer CPR and AED for adult, child
and infant
- Differences between adult, child and
infant rescue techniques
- Bag-mask techniques for adult, child
and infant
- Rescue breathing for adult, child and
infant
- Relief of choking for adult, child and
infant
- CPR with an advanced airway
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