|
CLASSES |
BCLS - This is the course for Health Care Providers and other professionals whose job requires CPR certification, such as Personal Trainers, PT's and OT's. The Full course is scheduled for eight hours and for Health Care Providers who have never taken a CPR course or whose cards has expired. The Recertification course is scheuled for four hours and is for Health Care Providers who have a current card. The actual length of both classses varies with class size and skill level. A BCLS card is valid for two years. Heartsaver AED - This is the American Heart Associantion's newes course. It is a skills based course that covers Adult CPR and the use of an Automated External Defibrilator. An AED is used to deliver life saving electrical shocks to a cardiac arrest victim. The AED looks for Ventricular Fibrillation in the victim and prompts the rescuer to deliver a shock if necessary. They are nearly 100% accurate and in are increasing survival rates by more than five fold. Course time is three to four hours. Heartsaver - This is the standard Adult CPR course. It includes discussion of Prudent Heart Living, recognizing heart attacks, medico-legal issues, communicable disease prevention, Adult CPR and Adult Foreign Body Airway Obstruction manuvers. Child and/or Infant CPR and FBAO can be included if additional time is added. This course is usually three to four hours. Add an hour to an hour and a half for each additional age group PBLS - This is the Pediatric Basic Life Support Course. It covers Infant and Child CPR and FBAO skills with an emphasis on preventing common accidents that lead to Infants and children needing CPR. The course time is approximately four hours. FIRST AID - This course is a training course custom designed as necessary for each client. It addresses the issues of shock, bleeding control, bandaging, splint, seizures, asthma, alergic reactions and many other emergency conditions. Emphasis can be placed on specific accident types that the student population is likely to encounter. The class time is usually four hours, but can be adjusted longer or shorter based on content and student needs. ACLS - This is the American Heart Association's Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course. It is intended primarily for Physicians, Nurses and Oral Surgeons who give general anesthesia. It covers the medication, defibrillation, and intubation skills required to create a perfusing rhythm in an adult patient with an arrhythmia or in cardic arrest. The Full course is 16 hours, the Recertification is four hours. PALS - This is the American Heart Association's Pediatric Basic Life Support course. It is intended primarily for Physicians and Nurses. It covers the medication, defibrillation, and intubation skills required to create a perfusing rhythm in an pediatric with an arrhythmia or in cardic arrest. The Full course is 16 hours, the Recertification is five hours. |