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Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED
What is Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED?
  • AHA’s Heartsaver CPR AED course provides the knowledge and skills that may help save a life. Heartsaver courses from AHA offer: a cohesive, consistent experience for the learner, best practices to give students the best possible learning experience and help them better retain information with enhanced and realistic scenarios.

What does this course teach?
  • Course Covers

    • Adult CPR and AED Use
    • Opioid-associated Life-threatening Emergencies
    • Child CPR and AED Use
    • Infant CPR
    • Choking in an Adult, Child or Infant
    • First Aid Basics
    • Choking in an Adult, Child or Infant

What occupations use this?
  • Heartsaver courses are intended for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for job, regulatory (e.g., OSHA), or other requirements. These courses can also be taken by anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting.  

Basic Life Support (BLS)
What is Basic Life Support (BLS)?
  • This course is for healthcare professionals who need to know how to perform CPR, as well as other lifesaving skills, in a wide variety of in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings. This is the most common kind of BLS Healthcare Provider CPR certification needed by Healthcare Workers.

What does this course teach?
  • High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
  • The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components
  • Important early use of an AED
  • Effective ventilations using a barrier device
  • Importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
  • Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants

What occupations use this?
  • This is the most common kind of BLS Healthcare Provider CPR certification needed by Healthcare Workers. Required for working in the healthcare industry such as a hospital, clinic, nursing home, assisted living facility or any healthcare setting.

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
What is Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)?
  • This ACLS course highlights the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS).

    • For healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies and for personnel in emergency response

What does this course teach?
  • Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device, and use of an AED
  • Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest
  • Recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia
  • Airway management
  • Related pharmacology
  • Management of ACS and stroke
  • Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team

What occupations use this?
  • ACLS certification is more common for these professions:

    • Health Care Providers
    • Physicians
    • Nurses
    • Paramedics
    • Advanced EMTs
    • Surgeons
    • Anesthesiologists
    • Dentists

Pediatric Advanced Life support (PALS)
What is Pediatric Advanced Life support (PALS)?
  • This classroom, Instructor-led course uses a series of videos and simulated pediatric emergencies to reinforce the important concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation, and team dynamics. The goal of the PALS Course is to improve the quality of care provided to seriously ill or injured children, resulting in improved outcomes.

What does this course teach?
  • The PALS Provider Course aims to improve outcomes for pediatric patients by preparing healthcare providers to effectively recognize and intervene in patients with respiratory emergencies, shock, and cardiopulmonary arrest by using high‐performance team dynamics and high‐quality individual skills. The course includes a series of case scenario practices with simulations that reinforce important concepts. Upon successful completion of all the patient cases, students must pass the multiple-choice exam with a minimum score of 84%.

What occupations use this?
  • Common Occupations that acquire PALS certifications:
    • Health Care Providers
    • Physicians
    • Nurses
    • Paramedics
    • Advanced EMTs
    • Surgeons
    • Anesthesiologists
    • Dentists

ACLS & BLS Combo Course
What is ACLS & BLS Combo?
  • The ACLS & BLS course highlights the importance of how to perform proper CPR, high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in a wide variety of in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings.

What does this course teach?
  • This ACLS/BLS Combo Course highlights the importance of:

    • High-performance team dynamics and communication
    • How to perform proper CPR
    • How to use an AED, systems of care
    • Recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest
    • Immediate post-cardiac arrest
    • Acute dysrhythmia, stroke
    • Acute coronary syndromes (ACS)

What occupations use this?
  • Common Occupations that acquire PALS certifications:
    • Health Care Providers
    • Physicians
    • Nurses
    • Paramedics
    • Advanced EMTs
    • Surgeons
    • Anesthesiologists
    • Dentists

Which Type Of
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
Class Are You Looking For?


 
*Initial is for you first time taking the course. Requires to have a current (unexpired) AHA or ARC BLS Provider Card.
*Renewal is only if you have a current (unexpired) AHA or ARC BLS Provider Card and an AHA ACLS or ARC ALS Provider Card.
*Skills Only requires you to complete the Heartcode® ACLS Online  and have a current (unexpired) AHA or ARC BLS Provider Card.
Which Type Of
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
Class Are You Looking For?


 
*Initial is for you first time taking the course or you have an expired Provider Card. Requires a current (unexpired) AHA or ARC BLS Card.
*Renewal is only if you have a current (unexpired) AHA or ARC BLS Provider Card and a current (unexpired) AHA or ARC PALS Provider Card.
*Skills Only requires you to complete the HeartCode® PALS Online prior to class and have a current (unexpired) AHA or ARC BLS Provider Card.
Which Type Of
Basic Life Support (BLS) Class
Are You Looking For?


 
*Skills Only requires you to complete the Heartcode® BLS Online portion prior to class