American Heart Association (AHA) AED, CPR, First Aid training

Basic Life Support (BLS) for the professional rescuer

The BLS for Healthcare Providers course is designed to provide a wide variety of certified or noncertified, licensed or nonlicensed, healthcare professionals with the skills to keep people alive until they can be brought to a hospital or be treated with more advanced lifesaving measures.

BLS Covers

  • adult and pediatric CPR
  • two-rescuer scenarios and use of the bag-valve mask
  • foreign-body airway obstruction (conscious and unconscious)
  • automated external defibrillation (includes child AED update)
  • special resuscitation situations
  • other cardiopulmonary emergencies
  • stroke and cardiac arrest

Heartsaver Training for the Lay Responder

The Heartsaver ® CPR AED course is intended for all individuals who have a duty to respond to a cardiac emergency because of job responsibilities or regulatory requirements, including:

Heartsaver CPR/ AED covers:

  • Child Care Workers
  • Security guards
  • Airline personnel
  • Police
  • Firefighters

Heartsaver AED/ CPR is also appropriate for lay rescuers who may have a need to respond to an emergency in the workplace, and family members of patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death.

Hands-on CPR AED training, the Heartsaver CPR AED course covers:

  • Adult CPR AED
  • Adult Choking
  • Child CPR AED (optional module)
  • Infant CPR (optional module)
  • Child and Infant Choking (optional module)

Heartsaver First Aid, CPR/ AED

The Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED course, teaches participants critical skills and knowledge needed to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services arrives. This course also teaches adult CPR AED. The course is based on the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR and ECC.

The course covers:

  • first aid basics (including scene safety, finding the problem, and calling for help)
  • medical emergencies (including actions for choking, breathing problems, and shock)
  • injury emergencies (including actions for bleeding, broken bones, and burns)
  • environmental emergencies (including actions for bites and stings, and temperature-related and poison emergencies)
  • adult CPR AED
  • child CPR AED (optional module)
  • infant CPR (optional module)

Rates:

BLS: $70 for two year certification

BLS renewal: $60/ 2 year cert.

Heartsaver AED/ CPR: $70 for two year certification

Heartsaver First Aid: $80 for two year certification

*Heartsaver AED/CPR and First Aid: $100 / 2 year cert.