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ForwardOverview:
The Basic Life Support course teaches the essential concepts of CPR for Adults, Children and Infants. Covering the latest resuscitation science to improve patient outcomes, and offering realistic simulations and scenarios, the course provides healthcare professionals or those needing to know how to perform CPR, the foundations of life-saving techniques following a cardiac event.
Audience:
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.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the Chain of Survival and the role of high-quality CPR in improving survival, including early recognition of cardiac arrest and prompt activation of emergency response.
- Recognize cardiac arrest and perform high-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants, including effective ventilations using barrier devices.
- Demonstrate early and effective use of an AED as part of BLS care to improve outcomes.
- Function effectively within a resuscitation team, including multirescuer CPR coordination and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction in adults, children, and infants.
HeartCode® BLS Instructor-Led Session Agenda
6 students, 2 BLS Instructors; student-to-instructor ratio 2:1; student-to-manikin ratio 1:1;
total time: approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes (with break)
Time | Lesson |
9:00-9:05 | Lesson 1: Course Introduction |
9:05-9:25 | Lesson 2: 1-Rescuer Adult BLS Practice While Watching: Initial Steps of CPR Practice While Watching: Pocket Mask Practice While Watching: 1-Rescuer Adult BLS |
9:25-9:35 | Lesson 3: Bag-Mask Device and AED Practice While Watching: Bag-Mask Device Student Practice: AED |
9:35-9:45 | Lesson 4: 2-Rescuer Adult BLS Practice While Watching: 2-Rescuer Adult BLS Students Practice: 2-Rescuer Adult BLS With AED |
9:45-10:05 | Lesson 5: High-Performance Teams Students Practice: Team Activity |
10:05-10:10 | Break |
10:10-10:15 | Lesson 6: Special Considerations Practice While Watching: Breaths and Ventilations |
10:15-10:23 | Lesson 7: Child BLS Practice While Watching: 2-Rescuer Child BLS |
10:23-10:40 | Lesson 8: Infant BLS Practice While Watching: Infant Compressions Practice While Watching: Bag-Mask Device for Infants Practice While Watching: 2-Rescuer Infant BLS Students Practice: Infant High-Performance Teams Activity (Optional) |
10:40-10:48 | Lesson 9: Local Protocols (Optional) |
10:48-10:53 | Lesson 10: Relief of Choking Practice While Watching: Infant Choking |
10:53-10:58 | Lesson 11: Conclusion |
10:58-11:38 | Lesson 12: Skills Test Adult CPR and AED Skills Test Infant CPR Skills Test |
11:38-11:48 | Lesson 13: Remediation* |
*Remediation time will vary depending on need and number of students.