The ACLS course builds on the foundation of lifesaving Basic Life Support 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. Skills are taught in group sessions with small group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented.
The new 2020 ACLS course requires you to interpret EKG rhythms. Unless you work with EKG rhythms on a daily basis we strongly recommend that you practice reading EKGs prior to class.
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Paramedics
- EMT’s
- Respiratory Therapists
- Staff in intensive- care units and emergency or critical care departments
- Other professionals who may respond to a cardiovascular emergency
- Physician Assistant
Course Overview
The American Heart Association BLS Course is the foundation for saving lives after cardiac arrest.
The course is designed to provide a wide variety of certified and non-certified, licensed and non-licensed, 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 skills you learn in this class will enable you to recognize and respond to cardiac arrest, and activate the emergency response system early.
This course covers these topics
- How to perform high-quality CPR in a wide variety of settings
- How to respond to choking emergencies
- Chain of Survival
- Appropriate use of AED
- Providing effective ventilation
This course is intended for
Current BLS providers (not expired)
- Students who provide health care to patients and need CPR training in a health career-related setting.
- Emergency room, family and other physicians
- Physician assistants
- Nurses and Nurse Practitioners
- Paramedics
- Intensive-Care and Critical-care providers
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