Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers

The AHA’s BLS Provider Program has been revised to reflect brand-new science in the 2020 AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC. This curriculum teaches basic life support skills for application in both healthcare settings and prehospital settings, with an emphasis on high-quality CPR, improvement of chest compression fraction, and high-performing team dynamics. The BLS Provider curriculum teaches rescue techniques for adults, children, and infants.

Health care professionals and other personnel need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.

·       New science and education from the 2020 AHA Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC

·       The components of high-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants

·       The AHA Chain of Survival for prehospital and in-facility providers

·       Important early use of an AED

·       Effective ventilations using a barrier device

·       Importance of teams in multi rescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multi rescuer CPR

·       Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants