BLS (Basic Life support)
The AHA’s Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Course provides the foundation for saving lives after cardiac arrest. Reflecting science and education in the 2020 AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC, this course teaches basic life support skills for application in both in-facility and pre hospital settings, with a focus on high quality CPR, improvement of chest compression fraction, and high-performing team dynamics.
The AHA’s BLS Course offers
NEW TOPICS
- Content representing the latest resuscitation science for improved patient outcomes
- Realistic scenarios, simulations, and animations depicting rescuers, teams, and patients
- How to respond to a cardiac arrest in a pregnant person
- Acceptable techniques to perform chest compressions on infants including the two-thumb encircling-hands or one-hand technique
- Changes to the pediatric assisted ventilation rate
- A sixth link, Recovery, has been added to the in-hospital and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest Chains of Survival for adults and pediatrics
- Two new Opioid-Associated Emergency Algorithms have been added for lay rescuers and trained rescuers
Who Will Benefit From This Course?
Doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics, allied healthcare professionals, Emergency medical staff.
Duration
5 hours
- Intermediate
- 122 Total Enrolled
- 18 hours 20 minutes Duration
- May 22, 2022 Last Updated