BLS training is designed for healthcare providers, including nurses, physicians, EMS professionals, CNAs, and other individuals like fitness advisors, parents, public services personnel and even teachers.
BLS Course Options
- In-Person: Traditional classroom-based courses with hands-on skills training.
- Blended Learning: Combines online learning with a hands-on skills session.
- CPR: Involves chest compressions and rescue breaths to maintain blood flow and oxygenation.
- AED Use: Learning how to use an AED to deliver an electrical shock to restart the heart.
- Choking Relief: Techniques to help individuals who are choking.
- Two-Rescuer CPR: Skills for providing CPR with another person.
Key Skills and Techniques
Performing chest compressions at a rate of 100-120 per minute, allowing the chest to recoil between compressions fully.
Providing breaths to the person in need of CPR.
Knowing how to attach an AED to a person, turn it on, and follow the AED's instructions.
Performing the Heimlich maneuver or other techniques to dislodge an object from a person's airway.
