The American Heart Association - BLS for Healthcare Providers course is designed to provide a wide variety of certified or noncertified, licensed or nonlicensed, healthcare professionals with the skills to keep people alive until they can be brought to a hospital or be treated with more advanced lifesaving measures.

The BLS course covers:

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• adult and pediatric CPR

• two-rescuer scenarios and use of the bag-valve mask

• foreign-body airway obstruction (conscious and unconscious)

• automated external defibrillation (includes child AED update)

• special resuscitation situations

• other cardiopulmonary emergencies

• stroke and cardiac arrest 

  You may register for the renewal course only if your card is still valid. 

Course Cost: $70.00 

• Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 12:00 PM64-69 Dry Harbor Rd

The ACLS course builds on the foundation of lifesaving Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR. This advanced course highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care, and immediate post-cardiac arrest care. ACLS also covers airway management and related pharmacology.

MANDATORY PRECOURSE MATERIAL

The ACLS course has changed for the better. You can now watch the classroom videos online. This is a magnificent change; even those not yet up for renewal can update by watching the videos and gaining new information before Renewal or Initial class. Directions will be given in your registration email.

Skills are taught in large-group sessions and small-group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented.

The ACLS course covers:

Do You Need BLS? You can also get your BLS for Healthcare Providers Certification during this course by adding the AHA BLS Healthcare Provider Online  Course from the menu below. Complete Part 1 online via the Internet, print the completion certificate and bring it with you on the day of the course. Complete Part 2 & 3 "skills check" to get your official American Heart Association certification card the day of this course. BLS Online & Skills Course Cost $80

You may register for the renewal course only if your card is still valid. 

Course Cost: $170.00

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ECG Prep Course (OPTIONAL)

This course is a precourse option for ACLS & PALS students that need additional help with EKG inturpitation. 

This short course reviews the main features of EKG tracings. A method for analyzing EKGs is also presented. This method includes assessment of rhythm, calculating heart rate, observing P-wave forms, measurement of EKG intervals and segments and the evaluation of other relevant waves. 

Skills taught in the ECG module include: 

• heart anatomy
• basic electrophysiology
• normal ECG measurements
• basic arrhythmias

This course will help students identify:

• Heart rate
• Heartbeat regularity
• Strength and timing of the electrical signals
• Any possible abnormal conditions

Optional: ECG Prep ADD $85.00

• Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 8:00 AM64-69 Dry Harbor Rd