Course Objectives:

• 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.