Basic Life Support (BLS)

Basic Life Support (BLS) is the foundational course for healthcare professionals and trained first responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.

BLS is the cornerstone program for healthcare professionals.As the gold standard, Heart & Stroke’s BLS training courses teach the theoretical and hands-on skills needed to respond to medical emergencies and drives the best possible patient outcomes.

Infused with Heart & Stroke’s 2020 Guidelines for CPR and ECC, our new BLS program offers an engaging and flexible new way of learning.

Powered by a new, user-friendly online platform, students can learn BLS in either a blended learning format (self-paced online learning combined with in-person, instructor-led skills training), or for those who require a more traditional format, a completely in-person course that’s led by a qualified instructor.

These options ensure you can choose the learning format that suits your needs and your schedule.In this course, you will learn the fundamental skills of high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for victims of all ages.

You will practice delivering these skills as a single rescuer and as a member of a multi-rescuer team.The skills you learn in BLS will enable you to:

• Recognize a cardiac arrest
• Activate the emergency response system early
• Respond quickly and confidently
• Perform high-quality single-rescuer CPR and multi-rescuer team CPR

This course will ensure people in cardiac arrest have the best chance of survival.

Features

• Reflects the most recent science from the 2020 Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC and adapted for Canada’s unique clinical health care practice, pharmacology and systems of care.
• Supports a variety of learning styles with two proven learning formats, including a blended format that allows students to learn at their own pace online and receive focused skills training in-person.
• Incorporates use of feedback devices, proven to improve learning and skills mastery, into the programming during in-person practice and testing.
• Reinforces the importance of direct hands-on practice and coaching in acquiring and elevating skills proficiency.
• Emphasizes the critical importance of high-quality CPR, including coordinated team dynamics. 
• Provides engaging video-based content with real world scenarios.

 Content

The BLS course focuses on building knowledge so you are confident and ready to perform high-quality CPR in a wide variety of settings. The course covers:

• Chain of Survival
• 1-rescuer / 2-rescuer CPR
• High-quality chest compressions with a feedback device
• Multi-rescuer team CPR
• Adult, Child and Infant CPR and relief of choking
• Use of an AED
• Effective ventilations using a barrier device and bag-mask device
• EXPANDED: Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies
• NEW: Role of the CPR coach;  Maternal cardiac arrest;  Anaphylaxis;  Drowning;  Heart attack and stroke;  and, Other life-threatening emergencies