Choosing your BLS credential
Before booking, read our AHA vs. Red Cross certification guide and confirm whether your employer or school requires Red Cross BLS or AHA BLS.
Basic Life Support Course
If you are looking for a Basic Life Support (BLS) course, Saving Hands offers hands-on training in Waltham or Canton, MA. This short-term course can teach healthcare practitioners, safety personnel, and other participants to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies in both adults and pediatric patients. The program follows the course requirements for Basic Life Support certification.
During this fully in-person course, you will complete instructor-led teaching, skills 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 patient outcomes 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 Red Cross 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. BLS training for healthcare providers focuses on recognizing emergencies and supporting breathing and circulation until additional medical help arrives.
The BLS course by Saving Hands costs $85. View the available class dates to choose a session that fits your schedule.
Hands-on practice helps participants build confidence in recognizing emergencies and responding with CPR and an AED.
Upon signing up for the BLS certification course, you will learn with an instructor. You can study either at your preferred location (fit for corporate training) or within our premises. The course focuses on the following lifesaving skills:
- CPR, which is short for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. In simple terms, you will get into a Basic Life Support Handbook and learn how to perform CPR on infants, 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. BLS 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;
- 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.;
- Choking. Discover the most effective methods of how to unblock the airways of infants, children, and adults with this Basic Life Support course.