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Community CPR & First Aid Programs

  • For The Community
  • CPR for Family and Friends: This  course is designed for families with children, scouts, grandparents, babysitters, the general public and mass CPR events.
     
  • CPR in the Schools: This program is designed for children in middle school and high school. It covers adult, child and infant procedures.
      
  • Heartsaver CPR with AED:  This community course covers the techniques of CPR and foreign body removal for adult ,child and infant patients and the safe and effective operation of an automated external defibrillator.
     
  • Heartsaver First Aid Program:  Combined content of the American Heart Asociation’s Heartsaver Adult CPR, AED, barrier devices, intervention for choking and the signs of heart attack, stroke, cardiac arrest and foreign body airway obstruction. First Aid information is for Adult Patients and includes triage and treatment for asthma, diabetic, allergic reactions, siezures, heart attack, stroke as well as bleeding and shock, burns, wounds, bodily injury, poisoning and other emergencies.
  • Pediatric Heartsaver First Aid Program:  Combined content including CPR AED & First Aid designed specifically for day care and nursery settings
  • Heartsaver Bloodborne Pathogens Course: The Heartsaver Bloodborne Pathogens Course is designed to meet Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements for bloodborne pathogens training when paired with site-specific instruction.The American Heart Association offers both an instructor led classroom bloodborne pathogens course (available in both English and Spanish) as well as a flexible online course (available in English only). Both are designed for workplace personnel in settings such as:
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  • • Industry and manufacturing
    • Fortune 1500 companies
    • Occupational health
    • Property management
    • Hospitality
    • Health and fitness staff
  • • Childcare workers
    • School personnel
    • Maintenance workers
    • Tattoo artists
    • Security
    • State corrections facilities
     
  • Features & Benefits
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  • • AHA is now the one-stop shop for all first aid, CPR, AED and bloodborne pathogens training needs
  • • PACT acronym and slogan help students learn and retain training
  • • Can be completed in approximately one hour
  • • Can be taken for first-time or renewal bloodborne pathogens training
  • Heartsaver Instructor Program: This program prepares the Heartsaver Instructor Candidate to administer and manage all the Heartsaver level programs including CPR, AED, First Aid, Bloodborne Pathogens, CPR for Family and Friends.
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Healthcare Professional Courses

          For Healthcare professionals...


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  • BCLS for Healthcare Providers:  This Course is the required CPR certification course for most healthcare professionals.
     
  • BCLS Instructor Recertification:  The AHA requires recertification during the odd number years. Instructors must demonstrate knowledge and skills verification for card reissuance.

     
  • BCLS Instructor:  This is an AHA course designed to educate instructor candidates for CPR Instructor certification. Candidates must hold current BCLS Healthcare Provider card, complete the Core Instructor Program and will be required to reverify competency in BCLS skills.
     
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support:  This AHA advanced level program teaches through the use of case studies and the principals of cardiac resuscitation, including ECG rhythm interpretation, advanced airway management, and pharmacologic interventions in cardiac emergencies.
     
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support Instructor Course:  This course is for currently certified ACLS providers who have been recommended for intructor certification and wish to become instructors.
     
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support:  This course focuses on assessment and management of infants and children in cardiopulmonary crisis. Participants may be certified as providers following written and practical evaluations of competency.
     
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support Instructor:  This course is for currently certified PALS providers who have been recommended for instructor certification and who desire to teach PALS programs.


PEARS (Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition and Stabilization)This is a pediatric course designed to enhance the healthcare provider’s basic pediatric life support knowledge to prepare students to initiate and manage the first few minutes of a pediatric arrest or prevent the arrest of a pediatric victim in severe cardiopulmonary distress. It is video-based, instructor-led, traditional classroom course. Students who successfully complete the course will receive a PEARS Provider Course Completion Card. This is a 6 hour program. The audience for this course is any healthcare provider who might encounter pediatric patients in their profession. It is not intended for those staff credentialed for advanced pediatric skills who routinely provide pediatric care. They are referred to the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) course.