AHA

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), approximately 4 million injuries and illnesses occur annually in the workplace, and nearly 80 percent of sudden cardiac arrests occur outside the hospital. 

Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills needed to respond to and manage a first aid, choking or sudden cardiac arrest emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services (EMS) arrives. In this course, students learn skills such as how to treat bleeding, sprains, broken bones, shock and other first aid emergencies. 

This course also teaches adult CPR and AED use. Upon successful completion of the course, including a first aid, CPR and AED skills test, students receive a Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED course completion card, valid for 2 years.

 

Course Covers

• Key changes reflecting the new science from the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

• First aid basics 

• Medical emergencies 

• Injury emergencies 

• Environmental emergencies 

• Adult CPR and AED use

• Optional modules in child CPR and AED use and infant CPR

• Optional written test

Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Course Materials

• Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Instructor Manual with Lesson Maps and Instructor CD (90-1029)

• Heartsaver DVD Set (90-1028)

• Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Student Workbook with Heartsaver First Aid Quick Reference Guide,* Heartsaver CPR AED Adult Reminder Card and Heartsaver CPR AED Child & Infant Reminder Card (90-1026)

*  Heartsaver First Aid Quick Reference Guide also sold separately (90-1025)

Primary Audience

This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in first aid, CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory or other requirements.

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), approximately 4 million injuries and illnesses occur annually in the workplace. Heartsaver First Aid is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services (EMS) arrives. In this course, students learn skills such as how to treat bleeding, sprains, broken bones, shock and other first aid emergencies.

Heartsaver First Aid teaches skills with the AHA’s research-proven Practice-While-Watching (PWW) technique, which allows instructorsto observe the students, provide feedback and guide the students’ learning of skills. 

Upon successful completion, including a skills test, students receive a Heartsaver First Aid course completion card, valid for 2 years.

 

Course Covers

• Key changes reflecting the new science from the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

• First aid basics 

• Medical emergencies 

• Injury emergencies 

• Environmental emergencies 

• Optional written test

Heartsaver First Aid Course Materials

• Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Instructor Manual with Lesson Maps and Instructor CD (90-1029)

• Heartsaver DVD Set (90-1028)

• Heartsaver First Aid Student Workbook with Heartsaver First Aid Quick Reference Guide* (90-1027)

*Heartsaver First Aid Quick Reference Guide also sold separately (90-1025)

Primary Audience

This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training 

who needs a course completion card in first aid to meet job, 

regulatory or other requirements.

With nearly 80 percent of sudden cardiac arrests occurring outside the hospital, it is important that employers offer CPR and AED training for their employees to respond to a sudden cardiac arrest emergency. 

Heartsaver CPR AED is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches adult CPR and AED use, as well as how to relieve choking on an adult. Optional modules include child CPR and AED use, infant CPR and child and infant choking.

Heartsaver CPR AED teaches skills with AHA’s research-proven Practice-While-Watching (PWW) technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback and guide the students’ learning of skills.

Upon successful completion of the course, including a skills test, students receive a Heartsaver CPR AED course completion card, valid for 2 years.

 

Course Covers

• Key changes reflecting the new science from the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

• Adult CPR and AED use 

• Optional modules in child CPR and AED use and infant CPR, including child and infant choking

• Optional written test Heartsaver CPR AED Course Materials

• Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Instructor Manual with 

Lesson Maps and Instructor CD (90-1029)

• Heartsaver DVD Set (90-1028)

• Heartsaver CPR AED Student Workbook with Adult and Child/Infant Reminder Cards (90-1044)

 

Primary Audience

This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory or other requirements.

What is it?

The Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers (HCP) Course is a video-based, Instructor-led course that teaches both single-rescuer and team basic life support. This course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. 

BLS for Healthcare Providers teaches skills using the American Heart Association’s proven Practice-While-Watching technique, which allows Instructors to observe students, provide feedback and guide students’ acquisition of skills. 

With their student manual for the course, students receive the new Pocket Reference Card, designed to provide quick 
emergency information to the rescuer at any time. 

Course Covers

• Key changes in basic life support, reflecting the new science from the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

• Critical concepts of high-quality CPR

• The American Heart Association Chain of Survival

• 1-Rescuer CPR and AED for adult, child and infant

• 2-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*

Primary Audience

This course is for healthcare professionals who need to know how to perform CPR, as well as other lifesaving skills, in a wide variety of in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings. 
BLS HCP Course Materials:

- Student Manual with Pocket Reference Card 90-1038

- Instructor Manual with CD and Lesson Maps 90-1036

- BLS HCP Course & Renewal Course DVD 90-1035

- BLS Instructor Package 90-1037 (includes):

• BLS HCP Course & Renewal Course DVD

• Instructor Manual with CD and Lesson Maps

• AHA Stopwatch

• Student Manual with Pocket Reference Card for Healthcare Providers Classroom

 

* This is an introduction to the compression/ventilation rate and ratio for a patient who has an advanced airway in place. For more information on advanced airways, please refer to the Airway Management Course.