Basic Life Support Course

If you are looking for a Basic Life Support (BLS) course, Saving Hands is ready to provide you with it. This short-term course can teach healthcare practitioners, safety employees, and average citizens to approach various respiratory and/or cardiac arrests in both adults and pediatric patients. The program of our BLS course adheres to the norms and standards of Red Cross and American Heart Association.

Upon pursuing this course, you will have online lectures, in-person skill demonstrations, hands-on practice, and case-based emergency scenarios that focus on individual and team-based response. Moreover, individuals will be able to acquire or boost their existing soft skills such as problem-solving in critical situations and teamwork, required to improve patients’ feelings and survival after an emergency.

After the successful completion of our BLS course, you will get a Basic Life Support certification that will be valid for two years.

Besides, those who have previously held BLS certification and just want to skip theory and practice but pass the exams may choose our course as well. Individuals who pass both written and skills examinations will be given an American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support certificate.

But let’s have a deeper look at what a BLS course really is.

What Is Basic Life Support?

Basic Life Support refers to a course aimed at teaching individuals how to conduct life-saving procedures on pediatric patients and adults. Basic Life Support Course for Healthcare Provider primarily helps to keep people who have faced some medical emergency (particularly those who suffer from respiratory or cardiac arrests) alive before they are approached by doctors.

The BLS course by Saving Hands is neither time-consuming nor expensive and will cost you $85 only. It precisely complies with the recommendations of the American Health Association and ECC.

Note: The Good Samaritan Law protects healthcare professionals who use ARC Basic Life Support with CPR or AED to save lives from legal repercussions. This is a good example of why taking a regular BLS course may come in handy. It provides in-depth training for medical professionals who often resort to BLS in their jobs.

Upon signing up for the Basic Life Support certification advanced class course, you will be assigned to a personal trainer. You can study either at your preferred location (fit for corporate training) or within our premises. The standard course curriculum includes the following healthcare basics:

• CPR, which is short for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. In simple terms, you will get into a Basic Life Support Handbook and learn how to provide CRP to newborns, children, and adults. You’ll understand the appropriate course of measures to take based on facts and whether or not CPR should be stopped at any moment. With our BLS course, you’ll get to know how to combine both CPR and AED to save lives;
• AED, or Automated External Defibrillator. AHA Basic Life Support Courses for healthcare providers teach you how to use the defibrillator which is commonly used after CPR has been performed. You will research particular health conditions that react well to AED usage, such as ventricular tachycardia, a condition linked to a fast heartbeat;
• First Aid. The American Heart Association Basic Cardiac Life Support course teaches individuals to assist wounded people. The first aid class explains how to work with first-aid kits and how to treat common health conditions including wounds, different types of burns, as well as fractures, etc.;
• Wound Healing. You will be able to learn from the American Heart Association (AHA) basic life support providers manual how to diagnose wounds, their basic treatment, as well as different types of wounds and their peculiarities;
• Heart. You will get to know about the fundamental anatomy of the heart as well as treatments for particular heart conditions such as heart attacks, discomfort within the chest, respiratory crises, etc.;
• Fractures. The instructors will tell you about the appropriate protocols for treating fractures, bruising, and even dental avulsions;
• Burns. The American Heart Association Basic Life Support course BLS will acquaint you with different types of burn injuries (i.e. first-, second-, and third-degree burns) and teach you how to effectively treat each type of burn;
• Poisoning. You’ll understand how to approach drug overdose as well as overdose of consumed harmful substances;
• Hemorrhages and hypoglycemia. You will learn about the four types of bleeding (blood loss) and what to do if such a problem arises;
• Choking. Discover the most effective methods of how to unblock the windpipes of newborns, children, and adults with this American Heart Basic Life Support course.

Emergency medical technicians courses, adult and pediatric cpr, home health aide training.