Basic Life Support (BLS)

Course Overview

The Green Box Basic Life Support (BLS)course covers basic life support skills and includes skills for adults, children, and infants as well as healthcare variations on infant CPR. The course includes putting yourself first with scene assessment and your safety.

We look at primary assessment, recovery position, CPR, compression only CPR, CPR handover and choking. It focuses on the core of first aid and what to do in life threatening emergencies.

We can provide this BLS course as an instructor led session with one of our experienced trainers, an online or a blended course. We like to be flexible so please let us know what we can do for you.

Who Is This Course For?

This BLS course complies with the latest 2021 ERC and UK Resuscitation Council Guidelines and is aimed at Healthcare Professionals with a duty to respond in the workplace.

Topics Covered

• Introduction and Initial care

• BLS for Healthcare professionals Introduction

• Optional Basic Life Support or video link Evaluation

• Fears of First Aid

• Asking Permission to Help

• Scene Safety

• Chain of Survival

• Introduction to the ABCDE approach

• ABCDE approach to patient care

• Barriers and gloves

• Adult Bag Valve Mask

• respiration and breathing

• Pulse points

• Initial assessment and Recovery Position

• Infant recovery Position

• Cardiac Arrest

• First Aid vs BLS healthcare Professionals

• Adult CPR Introduction

• Heart Attack

• Adult CPR

• Effective CPR

• CPR hand Over

• Compression Only CPR

• Drowning

• AED Introduction

• Child CPR

• Child CPR Breakdown

• Child CPR for Healthcare Professionals

• Infant CPR

• Infant CPR for Healthcare Professionals

• Oxygen First Aid

• Choking Training

• Adult Choking

• Child Choking

• Infant Choking