BLS FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER (CPR) – 5 hrs.

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August 24, 2017 @ 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
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Date: Thursday, August 24, 2017 Location: Room 500 (fifth floor), School of Health Professions EPS Duration of the Activity: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Registration / 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm Course Tuition: $75.00 Dentist & Auxiliary Personnel Speakers: Mr. Luis Meléndez / Mr. Eduardo Pérez

Course Description

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 Objectives:

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

Cognitive Objectives:

  • 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.