The Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider is a course designed to teach a variety of healthcare professionals how to recognize a number of life-threatening emergencies, provide good quality CPR, how to use an AED and how to relieve choking in a safe, timely and effective manner.

Who Is Eligible To Take This Course?

This course is for healthcare professionals who must know how to perform CPR, as well as other lifesaving skills, in a range of in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings.

What Will You Learn?

Key changes in basic life support, reflecting the new science from the 2010 Guidelines for CPR and ECC
Critical concepts of high-quality CPR
The Chain of Survival (TM)
One-rescuer CPR and AED for adult, child and infant
Two-rescuer CPR and AED for adult, child and infant
Differences between adult, child and infant rescue techniques
Bag-mask techniques for adult, child and infant
Rescue breathing for adult, child and infant
Relief of choking for adult, child and infant
CPR with an advanced airway

Approximate Course Length: 4.5 hours Approximate course length for renewal course: 4 hours

Students must pass a written exam and skills test in order to qualify for a BLS Provider course completion certificate

The Heartsaver Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Automated External Defibrillation (AED) course contains up-to-date content and science from the 2020 Guidelines for CPR and ECC. The purpose is to teach lay rescuers the lifesaving skills of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and relief of choking in adults, children and infants, as well as how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED) with both adults and children. (Training in infant and child CPR and choking relief are optional.)

Who Is Eligible To Take This Course?

This course is intended for the general public.

What Will You Learn?

CPR and AED for adults
How to help a choking adult
CPR and AED for children
How to help a choking child
CPR and AED for infants
How to help a choking infant

Approximate Course Length: 4 Hours

To receive a Heartsaver CPR & AED course completion certificate, students must pass a skills test

In the Standard First Aid course you will learn the essential skills of patient care to protect and support the life of a suddenly ill or injured person until emergency medical services arrive. Instruction will cover first aid skills such as those that help in the control of bleeding, shock management, stabilizing fractures and dislocations, assisting those having a heart attack or stroke.

Who Is Eligible To Take This Course?

This course is intended for the general public.

What Will You Learn?

Emergency Scene Management
Shock, Fainting, and Unconsciousness
Head, Spine, and Pelvic Injuries
Severe Bleeding and Wounds
Adult/Child/Infant Resuscitation
Medical Conditions (including Asthma, Allergies, Diabetic Emergencies, Seizures, and Poisoning)
Treatment of burns
Respiratory and Cardiovascular Emergencies
Adult/Child/Infant Choking
Secondary Survey
Bone, Joint and Muscle injury
Poisoning
Eye Injuries
Chest injuries
Environmental Illness & Injuries
Lifts and Carries
Multiple Casualty Management

Approximate Course Length: 16 Hours

Approximate course length for renewal course: 8 hours

Certification Length: 3 years

*Annual CPR Renewal is recommended as the CPR certification is registered with HSF for 1 year