CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer

DURATION: 6 hours 

COST: $120/student

Designed for professional first responders-Police/ EMT, Athletic Trainers, Life Guards, Therapists- anyone with a “duty to respond.” This class emphasizes team work and is excellent for any organization that has close knit teams of people working together. Meets professional standards.

• Teamwork in giving care

• Legal considerations for the professional rescuer 

• Standard precautions for preventing disease transmission

• Scene size-up and forming an initial impression.

• Perform a primary assessment for adults, children and infants

• The recovery position.

• Recognizing situations that require emergency medical services (EMS). 

• Safely and effectively move a victim on land. 

• Use of a resuscitation mask 

• Breathing emergencies 

• Use of a bag-valve-mask (BVM) resuscitator with two rescuers

• Care for an obstructed airway for a conscious and unconscious victim 

• The Adult and Pediatric Cardiac Chain of Survival

• Caring for a victim of a heart attack

• Signs and symptoms of cardiac arrest. 

• One-rescuer CPR and two-rescuer CPR 

• Automated External Defibrillator (AED)