ME300$804.5 hours
HeartCode® BLS Provider
The AHA’s BLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.
Anyone can sign up for this course.
Course Overview
The program is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in hospital and pre-hospital settings.
Course Outline
- HeartCode® BLS Online consists of a cognitive portion that is completed online. Topics covered in this course include:
- The steps of the Chains of Survival
- How to perform high-quality CPR for an adult, a child, and an infant
- How to use an AED
- Effective team dynamics in a multi rescuer resuscitation
- How to treat special considerations in basic life support
- How to relieve foreign-body airway obstruction for an adult, a child, and an infant
A separate psychomotor skills assessment using voice assisted mannequins with real-time audio and visual feedback or a skills assessment with an AHA Instructor is required to earn a valid AHA BLS Provider eCard that is valid for two years.