BLS (Basic Life Support)
Purpose: To train professional-level rescuers to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies in adults, children, and infants until advanced medical personnel take over.
Who is this program for:
- Medical personnel, such as physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, physician assistants, nurse assistants, dentists, physical therapists, pharmacists and students entering the field.
- Public safety personnel and other professional responders, such as paramedics, advanced emergency medical technicians (AEMTs), emergency medical technicians (EMTs), firefighters, law enforcement, emergency medical responders (EMRs) and students entering the field.
Course Objectives:
- Apply concepts of effective teamwork when caring for a patient experiencing a life-threatening emergency.
- Integrate communication, critical-thinking and problem-solving skills during a high-performance BLS team response.
- Apply a systematic, continuous approach to assess, recognize and care for adults, children and infants experiencing a life-threatening emergency.
- Perform a rapid assessment for responsive and unresponsive adults, children and infants.
- Effectively care for adults, children and infants experiencing a life-threatening injury or illness.
- Effectively care for adults, children and infants in respiratory arrest or respiratory failure.
- State the principles of high-quality CPR for adults, children and infants.
- Identify BLS differences among adults, children and infants.
- Provide high-quality chest compressions for adults, children and infants.
- Deliver effective ventilations to adults, children and infants using a pocket mask and bag-valve-mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- Demonstrate effective use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) for adults, children and infants.
- Provide high-quality BLS care for adults, children and infants in single- and multiple-provider situations.
- Deliver effective back blows, abdominal thrusts and chest thrusts for adults, children and infants with airway obstruction.