Heart And Stroke Basic Life Support (CPR HCP)

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.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 a blended learning format (self-paced online learning combined with in-person, instructor-led skills training).

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.

• 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.