This comprehensive course teaches cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and first aid response for adults, children, and infants. You will learn to recognize and respond effectively to medical emergencies for adult patients during critical situations in the initial minutes before emergency medical services arrive. The training provides a complete solution covering health and safety instruction in first aid protocols, adult and pediatric CPR, infant care techniques, and proper automated external defibrillator (AED) operation. Students must bring the current course textbook to class.
Participants are required to bring the current course textbook to class. Books are available for purchase at shopcpr.heart.org. Cost information: Digital version: Item number 20-1125, price $2.60; hardcover edition: Item number 20-1125, price $2.90.
Who Should Take This Class?
This course is recommended for teachers, childcare workers, fitness trainers, gym staff, foster parents, and members of the general public seeking certification or skill advancement.
This course fulfills institutional learning objectives in communication, critical thinking, and personal, social, civic, and environmental responsibility.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Treat sprains, open wounds, and other first aid situations with appropriate medical knowledge and techniques
- Position hands correctly for chest compressions during adult, child, and infant CPR
- Administer an epinephrine injection properly for allergic reactions
- Explain how high quality CPR increases survival rates in cardiac emergencies
- Describe the Chain of Survival concept and its role in emergency response
- Identify when CPR administration is necessary for a patient
- Perform high quality chest compressions and resuscitation on an adult patient
- Demonstrate how to perform CPR with assistance from bystanders
- Deliver effective rescue breaths using mouth-to-mouth technique or a barrier device for all age groups
- Operate an automated external defibrillator on an adult patient
- Perform appropriate CPR techniques for an infant patient
- Describe proper procedures for assisting a choking adult or child
- Assist an infant who is experiencing a choking emergency
- Describe appropriate emergency response procedures for opioid overdose situations
- Explain preventative techniques that reduce the risk of drowning emergencies
