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Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare professionals trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality CPR, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED.

Price Includes: HeartCode BLS online portion, online student manual, and your AHA BLS card.  

Please note that the BLS Keycode used for the online portion of the course is non-refundable.

Who should take this course?

This BLS course is a full course designed toward those who work in the healthcare field, such as nurses or nursing students, dentists, pharmacists, and EMTs. Although, anyone may take this course. Topics covered will be geared toward those in a healthcare environment and includes situations for adults, children and infants which include the following:

• Chain of survival

• BLS for adults

• The framework for CPR

• High-Performance Rescue Teams

• Main Components of CPR

• Adult BLS Algorithm for Healthcare Providers

• CPR techniques, including how to use a pocket mask and bag-mask device

• 2 rescuer BLS

• Team dynamics

• BLS for children and infants

• AED use for adults, children and infants

• Opioid treatment

• Choking relief for adults, children and infants

The BLS Course focuses on what you need to know to perform high-quality CPR in a wide variety of settings. You will also learn how to respond to choking and other types of life-threatening emergencies.

After successfully completing the BLS Provider Course, you should be able to:

• Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival.

• Describe all the steps in the Chains of Survival.

• Apply the BLS concepts of the Chains of Survival.

• Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR.

• Perform high-quality CPR for an adult, a child, and an infant.

• Describe the importance of early use of an automated external defibrillator (AED).

• Demonstrate the appropriate use of an AED.

• Provide effective ventilation by using a barrier device.

• Describe the importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation.

• Perform as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR.

• Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for an adult, a child, and an infant.

You will receive an American Heart Association certification valid for two years. You will receive an email from the American Heart Association with your certificate.