MSAD#1 Adult & Community Education

The Basic Life Support (BLS) Classroom Course is designed to provide a wide variety of healthcare professionals the ability to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, provide CPR, use an AED, and relieve choking in a safe, timely and effective manner. BLS is the foundation for saving lives after cardiac arrest.

This video-based, instructor-led course teaches both single-rescuer and team basic life support skills for application in both in-facility and pre-hospital settings.

This course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills. After successfully completing the BLS course, students should be able to:

-Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival

-Describe all the steps of the Chain of Survival and apply the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival

-Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR

-Perform high-quality CPR on adults, children, and infants

-Describe the importance of early AED use and demonstrate using one

-Provide effective ventilations with a barrier device

-Describe the importance of teams perform as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR

-Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) 

Students will receive a two-year certification card through the American Heart Association upon completion of the course. A physical skills check and written test are administered during the course. There are no prerequisites for this course.