Date: Thursday, October 19, 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.
Connect: