ONLINE: FREE Hands Only CPR & AED Class | Cupertino | 1.5 hrs | 2023

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ONLINE: FREE Hands Only CPR & AED Class | Cupertino | 1.5 hrs | 2023

ONLINE: FREE Hands Only CPR AED Class

By Santa Clara County Fire Department

When and where

Date and time

Wednesday, June 14 · 6 - 7:30pm PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Mobile eTicket

Most often, citizens will need to perform CPR on a family member, friend, or co-worker. Learn how to perform proper compressions and how to use an AED in the precious moments before first responders arrive.

This class follows the American Heart Association (AHA) CPR/AED curriculum for adult and child compressions only.

Participants will learn:

  • How to perform chest compressions
  • Learn what an automatic external defibrillator (AED) is and how to use it
  • How to aid an adult or child who is choking

To participate in this class, please ensure you have the following ready:

  • Access to the Zoom Application via a computer, laptop, or tablet (the link to join the class will be emailed on the day of the class via Eventbrite)
  • Ability to turn your camera ON so the AHA Instructor can view you performing proper chest compressions (You will not receive participation credit if the instructor does not see you perform compressions)
  • Access to a pillow or large stuffed animal to practice actual chest compressions

NOTE: Participants will NOT receive a two-year CPR/AED certification card.

Participants will NOT learn the breathing (head tilt, chin lift) technique OR infant CPR/choking in this class.

If you would like to learn these skills, enroll in a Heartsaver CPR/AED class, visit:

www.sccfd.org

www.heart.org

www.redcross.org

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This training class is open to individuals who live or work within the communities served by County Fire: Campbell, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Monte Sereno, Saratoga and the unincorporated surrounding areas.

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About the organizer

Established in 1947, the Santa Clara County Fire Department provides fire services for Santa Clara County, California (light green in the map below) and the communities of Campbell, Cupertino, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, and Saratoga. The department also provides protection for the unincorporated areas adjacent to those cities. The department's area of coverage is shown in dark green in the map below.

area of coverage smallSCCFD Area of Coverage

Wrapping in an approximately 20 mile arc around the southern end of "Silicon Valley", the Santa Clara County Fire Department has grown to include 15 fire stations, an administrative headquarters, a maintenance facility, five other support facilities, 19 pieces of apparatus and 3 command vehicles, to cover 128.3 square miles (267 square km) and a population of over 226,700.