basic life support

American Heart Association

AHA

Training

Intro

Outline

• High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants

• The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components

• Important early use of an AED

• Effective ventilations using a barrier device

• Importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation performance as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR

• Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) adults and infants

Intro

The course highlight the fundamental steps needed to resuscitate the victims successfully either prehospital or in hospital with the emphasis that these steps should be mastered by health care providers and the trained lay persons/bystanders, the course has interactive e learning materials that the candidates need to review before coming to the training center for skill assessment.

Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

Outline

• Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device, and use of an AED

• Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest

• Recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia

• Airway management

• Related pharmacology

• Management of ACS and stroke

• Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team