Courses for Professionals & Healthcare Providers

Basic Life Support - BLS

The primary purpose of the American Red Cross BLS program is to equip responders with the skills to quickly recognize cardiac arrest, provide high-quality CPR, and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) to improve patient outcomes. This training also addresses other life-threatening emergencies that can lead to cardiac arrest if not promptly managed. These include respiratory arrest, drowning, opioid overdose, myocardial infarction, life-threatening bleeding and obstructed airway.

Who Should Take This Course: The intended audience for this program includes responders who directly care for patients in a variety of settings and who could be called upon to care for a critically ill patient.

Course Objectives:

After completing the course, participants will be able to:

Describe the Cardiac Arrest Chain of Survival and how each link contributes to improving survival from cardiac arrest.
Apply teamwork skills, prioritizing teamwork and communication during cardiac emergencies through simulated multiple-responder scenarios.
Integrate feedback on performance in CPR technique, emphasizing continuous improvement in skills, knowledge retention and team building.
Articulate the importance of high-quality CPR and its impacts on survival.
Demonstrate high-quality CPR for adults, children and infants, including chest compressions and ventilations with a barrier device.
Explain the purpose of an automated external defibrillator (AED) and how it can improve survival from cardiac arrest.
Demonstrate how to effectively use an AED in conjunction with CPR for adults, children and infants.
Describe identification and management of life-threatening conditions that can lead to cardiac arrest in adults, children and infants.
Examine the potential differences in basic life support care for adults, children and infants.
Recognize the signs of choking and initial actions needed for adults, children and infants.
Perform appropriate techniques to relieve choking in adults, children and infants.

Course Types:

Blended Learning (Online Course + Live Skills Session)
Classroom

Course Length:

Blended Learning - Online Course + 2.5 hours classroom
Classroom - 4.5 hours

CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers

The primary purpose of the American Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers course is to teach professional rescuers (i.e., those with a duty to act) the skills needed to respond appropriately to breathing and cardiac emergencies. This includes the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) to care for a person experiencing cardiac arrest.

Who Should Take This Course: The intended audience for the CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers course includes members of emergency response teams, such as lifeguards, public safety personnel, medical personnel and other employees with a duty to respond.

Course Objectives:

After completing the course, participants will be able to:

Describe measures they can take while performing their job duties as a professional rescuer to protect themselves and others from infectious disease.
Demonstrate proper technique for removing disposable gloves.
Explain the purpose of conducting a rapid assessment and list the five major actions that comprise the rapid assessment.
Demonstrate how to perform a rapid assessment on an adult and an infant and describe key differences when performing a rapid assessment on an adult, child and infant.
State the next actions a rescuer should take based on the conditions found during the rapid assessment.
Recognize a breathing emergency.
Identify situations when it may be appropriate to provide ventilations to an ill person.
Demonstrate how to provide effective ventilations using a resuscitation mask on an adult and on an infant and describe key differences when providing ventilations using a resuscitation mask for an adult, child and infant.
Demonstrate how to provide effective ventilations using a bag-valve-mask (BVM) resuscitator on an adult and on an infant and describe key differences when providing ventilations using a BVM resuscitator for an adult, child and infant.
Recognize cardiac arrest.
State the six links in the Adult Cardiac Chain of Survival and the Pediatric Cardiac Chain of Survival.
Describe five key principles of providing high-quality CPR and explain how the provision of high-quality CPR supports optimal outcomes.
Demonstrate how to perform single-rescuer CPR on an adult and on an infant and describe key differences when performing single-rescuer CPR on an adult, child and infant.
Demonstrate how to perform two-rescuer CPR on an adult and on an infant and describe key differences when performing two-rescuer CPR on an adult, child and infant.
State considerations for safe and effective AED use.
Demonstrate how to use an AED on an adult and describe key differences when using an AED on an adult, child and infant.
Demonstrate how to safely and effectively care for an obstructed airway for both a responsive and an unresponsive adult or child.
Demonstrate how to safely and effectively care for an obstructed airway for both a responsive and an unresponsive infant.
Work effectively as part of a team in a multiple-rescuer response.

Course Types:

Blended Learning (Online Course + Live Skills Session)
Classroom

Course Length:

Blended Learning - Online Course + 2.5 hours classroom
Classroom - 4.5 hours