BLS for Healthcare Provider (CPR) – 5 hrs.

BLS for Healthcare Provider (CPR) – 5 hrs.

March 13, 2014   -LLAMAR PARA CONFIRMAR LA HORA Location: Room 500 – School of Health Profession [Online Registration] Speakers: Dr. Heriberto Rivera, Mrs. Elba Caraballo, Mr. Edwin Cruz & Mr. Javier Díaz

The Continuing Education and Professional Studies Division of the School of Dental Medicine invites you to our next BLS for Healthcare Provider (CPR) course to be offered by Dr. Heriberto Rivera and staff.  Dr. Heriberto Rivera is the Associate Director of (CEAEM) Center of Advanced Study for the Emergency Medical Personnel at the School of Health Professions, Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico.

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:

• 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