100% classroom training means students are with an AHA Instructor for their entire learning experience.

Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills needed to respond to and manage an emergency until emergency medical services arrives. Skills covered in this course include first aid; choking relief in adults, children, and infants; and what to do for sudden cardiac arrest in adults, children, and infants.

This course teaches skills with the AHA’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback, and guide the students’ learning of skills.

Features

• Video-based course ensures consistency 

• Instructor-led, hands-on class format reinforces skills proficiency

• Course is updated with the new science from the 2020 AHA Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

• After successfully completing this course, students should be able to

• List the priorities, roles, and responsibilities of first aid rescuers

• Describe the key steps in first aid

• Remove protective gloves

• Find the problem

• Describe the assessment and first aid actions for the following life-threatening conditions: heart attack, difficulty breathing, choking, severe bleeding, shock, and stroke

• Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child

• Demonstrate how to help a choking infant

• Use an epinephrine pen

• Control bleeding and bandaging

• Recognize elements of common injuries

• Recognize elements of common illnesses

• Describe how to find information on preventing illness and injury

• Recognize the legal questions that apply to first aid rescuers

• Describe how high-quality CPR improves survival

• Explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival

• Recognize when someone needs CPR

• Perform high-quality CPR for an adult

• Describe how to perform CPR with help from others

• Give effective breaths using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups

• Demonstrate how to use an AED on an adult

• Perform high-quality CPR for a child*

• Demonstrate how to use an AED on a child*

• Perform high-quality CPR for an infant*

• Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child

• Demonstrate how to help a choking infant*

• *Child and infant modules are optional.

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