BLS Health Care Provider Course
The BLS Healthcare Provider Course is designed to prepare a wide variety of healthcare professionals to recognize several lifethreatening
emergencies and to provide CPR, use an AED, and relieve choking in a safe, timely, and effective manner. This course
includes adult, child, and infant rescue skills in both the out-of-hospital and in-hospital settings. Anyone who needs to know how to
perform CPR in a healthcare setting can take this course. Course is taught by lecture, video and student participation.
Information Covered:
- Steps to CPR
- When to start CPR
- When to give breaths, including with barrier devices
- When to check a pulse
- How to give compressions at the proper depth and rate and with complete chest recoil
- When to use an AED
- The signs and actions for severe airway obstruction in the responsive and unresponsive victim
- The links of the Chain of Survival
- Activating the appropriate emergency response system
- Performing CPR
- Providing early defibrillation
- Ensuring the arrival of early advanced care by activating 9-1-1
- Describe the signs of 4 common life-threatening emergencies in adults
- Cardiac Arrest
- Choking
- Stroke
- Heart Attack
