How Does This Course Work?

Complete Online Course + Complete Skills Classroom = AHA 2 year card

HeartCode BLS uses the latest eSimulation technology to enable students to assess and treat patients in virtual healthcare settings. Utilizing a variety of eLearning assets such as dramatizations, eSimulations, animations, self-directed learning, and interactive activities, this course teaches BLS knowledge and skills.  This method of learning provides training consistency, adaptability to different learning styles, and flexibility for the student’s and employer’s time. Students can work at their own pace applying their knowledge to real-time decision making and skills development. Blended training also supports the need for hands-on learning of psychomotor skills. Debriefings and coaching are provided immediately after each simulation. Once the cognitive portion of the course has been completed, students practice and test their skills with an AHA Instructor with Midwest CPR Foundation.

Who Should Take This Course?

The AHA’s Heartcode BLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.

Hands-On Session (sold separately)

After completing the eLearning component, students will attend a structured Instructor-led course that focuses on meaningful skills practice, debriefing, team scenarios, discussions of local protocols and skills testing.

What Does This Course Teach?

After successfully completing both the eLearning and hands-on session of the BLS Course, students should be able to:

• Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
• Describe all of the steps of the Chain of Survival and apply the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival
• Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
• Perform high-quality CPR for adults, children and infants
• Describe the importance of early use of an AED and demonstrate its use
• Provide effective ventilations by using a barrier device
• Describe the importance of team dynamics in multirescuer resuscitation and perform as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
• Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants

How does this course work?

Hands-On Session (sold separately or purchase blended course that includes everything!)

Upon successful completion of the online portion a certificate of completion is available for students to print. This certificate must be presented for the hands-on skills practice and skills testing session with an AHA BLS or Heartsaver Instructor. Upon successful completion of both the online and hands-on portions, students receive an AHA Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR AED course completion card, valid for two years.

Who should take this course?

Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR AED Online is intended for those involved in childcare who have a duty to respond to illnesses and injuries in a child or infant in the first few minutes until professional help arrives. This audience includes child care workers, teachers, foster care workers, camp counselors, youth organizations, and coaches for children’s sports organizations. This course is also ideal for parents, grandparents, babysitters, and guardians. This course is also appropriate for educators, teachers and the general public.

What does the course teach?

Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR AED Online is a self-directed program that uses case-based scenarios and interactive lessons to teach child care providers and others to respond to and manage illnesses and injuries in a child or infant in the first few minutes until professional help arrives.

To receive an AHA Course Completion Card for the full Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR AED course, students must complete the hands-on skills practice and testing portion of the course with an AHA BLS or Heartsaver Instructor.

After successfully completing this course, students will  be able to:

• List the priorities, roles, and responsibilities of a rescuer providing first aid to a child or infant
• Describe the 4 key steps in first aid for children and infants: prevent, protect, assess, and act
• Remove protective gloves (skill student will demonstrate)
• Find the problem (skill student will demonstrate)
• Describe the assessment and first aid actions for the following life-threatening conditions: difficulty breathing, choking, severe bleeding, and shock
• Control bleeding and bandaging (skills student will demonstrate)
• Use an epinephrine pen (skill student will demonstrate)
• 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 pediatric 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 by 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
  
  *Optional modules