BLS for healthcare Provider (CPR)

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BLS for Healthcare Provider (CPR) – 5 hrs.

[Online Registration] Thursday, January 28, 2016 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 OBJETIVES 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.