Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers
Target Audience:
The Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers Course is open to any healthcare worker who has a voluntary or professional duty to respond to a cardiac or respiratory emergency.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Perform initial CPR across all age groups
- Apply fundamental airway techniques and rescue breathing
- Operate bag-valve resuscitators with and without adjuncts
- Perform automated external defibrillation (AED)
- Manage choking in conscious and unconscious adults, children and infants
- Apply special considerations including scene safety, standard precautions, head/neck/spinal injuries, and the recovery position
Course Structure:
The Course is taught in a relaxed, video-based practice-while-watching interactive adult-learning environment. The focus is on active participation with ample opportunity to practice and apply these skills in simulated scenarios.
Assessment and Preparation:
The American Heart Association BLS for Healthcare Providers Manual will be supplied prior to Course participation.
The BLS for Healthcare Provider Course is a compulsory entry requirement for international advanced life support courses such as ACLS, PALS, ANLS, AMLS, as well as certain national post-graduate qualifications such as the Diploma in Primary Emergency Care (DipPEC) of the College of Emergency Medicine of South Africa.
Find Course Date:
To register for this course, please contact: agrecia@resus.co.za or call +27 (0)11 478 1874