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The ACLS course builds on the foundation of lifesaving Basic Life Support (BLS) 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.

MANDATORY PRECOURSE MATERIAL

The ACLS course has changed for the better. You can now watch the classroom videos online. This is a magnificent change; even those not yet up for renewal can update by watching the videos and gaining new information before Renewal or Initial class. Directions will be given in your registration email.

 

Skills are taught in large-group sessions and small-group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented.

The ACLS course covers:

  • ACLS algorithms
  • immediate post-cardiac-arrest care
  • airway management
  • rhythm recognition
  • high-quality CPR
  • 1-rescuer CPR AED
  • effective resuscitation team dynamics
  • science overview (update course)
  • BLS and ACLS surveys
  • ACS
  • Megacode treatment
  • identification and initial care of other life-threatening clinical situations (such as stroke).

 

Do You Need BLS? You can also get your BLS for Healthcare Providers Certification during this course by adding the AHA BLS Healthcare Provider Online  Course from the menu below. Complete Part 1 online via the Internet, print the completion certificate and bring it with you on the day of the course. Complete Part 2 & 3 "skills check" to get your official American Heart Association certification card the day of this course. BLS Online & Skills Course Cost $80

 

 

The ACLS course builds on the foundation of lifesaving Basic Life Support (BLS) 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 large-group sessions and small-group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented.

The ACLS course covers:

  • ACLS algorithms
  • immediate post-cardiac-arrest care
  • airway management
  • rhythm recognition
  • high-quality CPR
  • 1-rescuer CPR AED
  • effective resuscitation team dynamics
  • science overview (update course)
  • BLS and ACLS surveys
  • ACS
  • Megacode treatment
  • identification and initial care of other life-threatening clinical situations (such as stroke).

 You may register for the renewal course only if your card is still valid.  In order to prove the card is valid, you must show up to the class with the original AHA ACLS card that is not expired.  We honor the expiration date on the card until the end of the month it is set to expire on.  If your card is not valid, you will be asked to pay the remaining price difference so you may take the initial course.  We do not offer refund so please make sure your card is indeed valid for renewal before

Do You Need BLS? You can also get your BLS for Healthcare Providers Certification during this course by adding the AHA BLS Healthcare Provider Online  Course from themenu below. Complete Part 1 online via the Internet, print the completion certificate and bring it with you on the day of the course. Complete Part 2 "skills check" to get your official American Heart Association certification card the day of this course. BLS Online & Skills Course Cost $80

 

MANDATORY PRECOURSE MATERIAL

The ACLS course has changed for the better. You can now watch the classroom videos online. This is a magnificent change, even those not yet up for renewal can update by watching the videos and gain the new information prior to a renewal class.

 

 

This course is for Healthcare Professionals who need to know how to perform CPR, as well as other lifesaving skills, in a wide variety of in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings.  This course is often required by many hospitals or schools related to the medical field.  Individuals such as nursing students, EMT students, PA students and others will very likely be required to be certified in BLS before or during school sessions.            

                                       The Course Covers:

  • Adult and pediatric CPR
  • Two-rescuer scenarios and use of the bag-valve mask
  • Foreign-body airway obstruction (conscious and unconscious)
  • Automated external defibrillation (includes child AED update)
  • Special resuscitation situations
  • Other cardiopulmonary emergencies
  • Stroke and cardiac arrest 

The BLS for Healthcare Providers course is designed to provide a wide variety of certified or noncertified, licensed or nonlicensed, 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 BLS course covers:

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  • adult and pediatric CPR

  • two-rescuer scenarios and use of the bag-valve mask

  • foreign-body airway obstruction (conscious and unconscious)

  • automated external defibrillation (includes child AED update)

  • special resuscitation situations

  • other cardiopulmonary emergencies

  • stroke and cardiac arrest 

The Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED course, which teaches participants critical skills and knowledge needed to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services arrives. This course also teaches adult CPR AED. The course is based on the 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR and ECC.

 

Key Features and Benefits

The Course includes:

  • first aid basics (including scene safety, finding the problem, and calling for help)
  • medical emergencies (including actions for choking, breathing problems, and shock)
  • injury emergencies (including actions for bleeding, broken bones, and burns)
  • environmental emergencies (including actions for bites and stings, and temperature-related and poison emergencies)
  • adult CPR AED
  • child CPR AED (optional module)
  • infant CPR (optional module)

This instructor-led, classroom-based PALS course is an essential resource for training physicians, nurses, and emergency medical care providers in PALS. Also useful as a pre- and post-course reference book. Based on the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR and ECC.

The PALS course covers:

The classroom- and video-based, instructor-led PALS course uses a series of simulated pediatric emergencies to reinforce the important concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation, and team dynamics. The goal of the PALS course is to improve the quality of care provided to seriously ill or injured children, resulting in improved outcomes. Manual includes information on:

  • pediatric emergencies
  • concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment
  • BLS
  • PALS treatment algorithms
  • effective resuscitation
  • team dynamics.

ADVANCED STROKE LIFE SUPPORT (ASLS ®)

This curriculum offers health care providers the training to make a rapid evaluation, stabilize, and care for stroke patients. Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States suffers from a stroke; and every 4 minutes, some dies. Having the skills to administer emergency care during the “golden window” of time improves the patient’s survivability and prognosis.

Developed by the Gordon Center, the ASLS® curriculum is widely used by hundreds of hospitals, fire rescue, ambulance and EMS systems, and educational institutions throughout the country and around the globe.

 

ADVANCED STROKE LIFE SUPPORT (ASLS ®) CURRICULUM IS SUITED FOR:

  • Paramedics and Emergency Medical Personnel
  • Residents
  • Fellows
  • Nursing students and nurses
  • Medical students
  • Physicians in training and practice
  • Physician assistants
WHO SHOULD TAKE THE COURSE?
The ASLS (Advanced Stroke Life Support) Instructor course is designed for healthcare professionals who want to teach the ASLS Blended Learning Course to other healthcare providers. This includes those who are already ASLS instructors and those who want to become instructors

QUALIFICATIONS
The current requirements to become an ASLS® instructor are:
  • Active licensure or certification as a healthcare professional whose responsibilities include caring for patients at risk for a stroke
  • Education experience as a trainer or adult educator (minimum 6 months recommended)
  • Alignment with a registered ASLS® Training Center authorized by the GCRME to teach the curriculum
  • Successful completion of an ASLS® Instructor Course, which has as prerequisites: 
  • Completion within prior year of an ASLS® Provider Course with a minimum posttest score of 85%

PREREQUISITES FOR INSTRUCTOR ESSENTIALS
Prior to taking this course, candidates must have a current Provider Card for the discipline they wish to teach. Candidates must also have aligned with an AHA Training Center that is accepting new instructors for their discipline.

COURSE COVERS
• Planning and preparation for courses
• Instructing courses
• Conducting written exams, skills practice and skills testing
• Keeping your Instructor status current
• Includes of general information about instructing AHA courses, followed by discipline course-specific information
• Course information is available for 24 months following online activation
• Continued education credits available

NEXT STEPS FOR BECOMING AN INSTRUCTOR
Following successful completion of the Instructor Essentials Course, candidates must also be monitored by Faculty teaching their first course within six months of completing the classroom portion. Upon successful completion of all steps, candidates receive an Instructor card, valid for two years.

​COURSE DELIVERY
Blended learning includes a combination of eLearning, in which a student completes part of the course in a self-directed manner, and a hands-on session.