Course Descriptions
Health Care Provider Full Certification
(Source: American Heart Association)
Course Description: The BLS Health Care Provider Course teaches CPR skills for helping victims of all ages (including doing ventilation with a barrier device, a bag-mask device, and oxygen); use of an automated external defibrillator (AED); and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (FBAO). It's intended for participants who provide heath care to patients in a wide variety of settings, including in-hospital and out-of-hospital. For certified or noncertified, licensed or nonlicensed health care professionals.
Intended Audience: Health care providers, such as physicians, nurses, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, respiratory therapists, physical and occupational therapists, physician's assistants, residents or fellows, or medical or nursing students in training, aides, medical or nursing assistants, police officers, and other allied health personnel.
Basic Life Support Recertification
(Source: American Heart Association)
Course Description: The BLS recertification course is for individuals that are currently BLS certified. The BLS Health Care Provider Course teaches CPR skills for helping victims of all ages (including doing ventilation with a barrier device, a bag-mask device, and oxygen); use of an automated external defibrillator (AED); and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (FBAO). It's intended for participants who provide heath care to patients in a wide variety of settings, including in-hospital and out-of-hospital. For certified or noncertified, licensed or nonlicensed health care professionals.
Intended Audience: Health care providers, such as physicians, nurses, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, respiratory therapists, physical and occupational therapists, physician's assistants, residents or fellows, or medical or nursing students in training, aides, medical or nursing assistants, police officers, and other allied health personnel.
Pediatric Advanced Life Support
(Source: American Heart Association)
Course Description: The goal of the Pediatric Advanced Life Support Course is to provide the learner with:
- Information needed to recognize infants and children at risk for cardiopulmonary arrest
- Information and strategies needed to prevent cardiopulmonary arrest in infants and children
- The cognitive and psychomotor skills needed to resuscitate and stabilize infants and children in respiratory failure, shock or cardiopulmonary arrest.
Intended Audience: Pediatricians, house staff, emergency physicians, family physicians, nurses, paramedics, respiratory therapists, and other health care providers who are responsible for the well-being of infants and children.
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
(Source: American Heart Association)
Course Description: The ACLS Provider Course provides the knowledge and skills needed to evaluate and manage the first 10 minutes of an adult ventricular fibrillation/ventricular tachycardia (VF/VT) arrest. Providers are expected to learn to manage 10 core ACLS cases: a respiratory emergency, four types of cardiac arrest (simple VF/VT, complex VF/VT, PEA and asystole), four types of prearrest emergencies (bradychardia, stable tachycardia, unstable tachycardia and acute coronary syndromes) and stroke.
Intended Audience: Personnel staffing emergency, intensive care or critical care departments; emergency medical providers such as physicians, nurses, emergency technicians, paramedics, respiratory therapists and other professionals who may respond to a cardiovascular emergency.
Heartsaver First Aid / CPR / AED
(Source: American Heart Association)
Course Description:The Heartsaver First Aid Course provides the skills to effectively assess and maintain life from the critical minutes immediately following an emergency until the arrival of emergency medical services personnel. The course also provides corporations with a complete health and safety training solution for First Aid, CPR and AED.
Intended Audience:Persons assigned to respond to emergencies in the workplace or community as well as those who want to learn first aid, CPR and AED skills. Some rescuers are required to take this course as part of their employer's efforts to comply with OSHA regulations, e.g., corporate employees, security guards, airline personnel, lifeguards and other individuals who want or need first aid training.
AHA E-Learning Self-Directed Courses
(Source: American Heart Association)
HeartCode® ACLS Anywhere®
Complete the 10 core cases and exam on your own computer, attend a skills check-off at an AHA Training Center or just enhance your skills by practicing and receive immediate feedback.
BLS for Health care Providers Online Renewal Course
This online course provides a review for health care professionals who have prior CPR training. This program recognizes that health care professionals have knowledge and skills acquired from prior CPR training and years of patient care.
Fundamental Critical Care Support
(Source: Society of Critical Care Medicine)
A two-day comprehensive course addressing fundamental management principles for the first 24 hours of critical care.
Course purpose:
- To better prepare the non-intensivist for the first 24 hours of management of the critically ill patient until transfer or appropriate critical care consultation can be arranged.
- To assist the non-intensivist in dealing with sudden deterioration of the critically ill patient.
- To prepare house staff for ICU coverage.
- To prepare nurses and other critical care practitioners to deal with acute deterioration in the critically ill patient.
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Fundamentals of Disaster Management
(Source: Society of Critical Care Medicine)
Fundamentals of Disaster Management (FDM) course is offered as an independent, one-day series, or as an add-on module to FDM for continuing education credit.
FDM Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Review the basic principles of disaster management
- Discuss teaching techniques for critical care in disaster situations
- Review initial casualty management
- Understand how to handle casualties of natural disasters
- Understand how to communicate when normal channels of communication have been destroyed
- Review how to handle radiation contamination
- Understand the critical care concepts related to chemical and biological contamination
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