Basic Life Support for Healthcare Provider (CPR)

Basic Life Support for Healthcare Provider (CPR) – 5 hrs.                                                                              

November 14, 2013   

Horario no reportado

Location: Room 500 Escuela de Profesiones de la Salud (EPS)

[Online Registration]

Speaker Dr. Heriberto  Rivera Mrs. Elba  Caraballo Mr. Edwin  Cruz Mr. Javier  Díaz Course Overview

The American Heart Association  designed the BLS for Healthcare Providers course to prepare a wide variety of  healthcare professionals to recognize several life-threatening emergencies and  to provide CPR, use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), and relieve choking in a  safe, timely, and effective manner. The course includes adult, child and infant  rescues skills in both the out-of-hospital and in-hospital settings.

COURSE OBJETIVES At  the end of the BLS course participant will be able to:

• Describe the steps of CPR
• Describe the signs and actions for       severe airway obstruction in the

responsive and unresponsive victim.

• Describe the links in the chain of       survival.
• Describe the sings of four common life       threatening emergencies in adults.
• Activating the emergency response       service.

Psychomotor Objectives:

• Activating the emergency response       system.
• Giving breaths for adult, child, and       infant victims.
• Giving compressions for adults, child,       and infant victims.
• Performing 1-and-2 rescues CPRS for       adults, child, and infant victims.
• Using an AED for victim’s  >   year of age.
• Relieving choking in the responsive       and unresponsive victim of any age.