Basic Life Support (BLS) Course
Course Description:
Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare professionals trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality CPR, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED.
Target audience :
This 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 hospital and pre-hospital settings
what will I learn ?
- Describe the importance of high quality CPR and its impact on survival
- Describe all steps of the survival chain
- Describe the importance of early use of an AED
- Explain proper use of the AED
- Describe the significance of the difference in multi-rescue resuscitation
- Describe the technique for relieving foreign body airway obstruction in an adult or child
- Describe the technique for relieving an infant’s foreign body foreign body obstruction
- Recognize the signs of someone in need of CPR
- Perform high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation on an adult
- Perform high-quality CPR for the child
- Perform high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation of the infant
- Provide effective ventilation using a barrier device
- Perform as an effective team member during multi-rescue CPR