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. Features In this course, you will learn the fundamental skills of high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for victims of

Description

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.

Features

In this course, you will learn the fundamental skills of high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for victims of all age. 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.

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.