CPR for Healthcare Providers

4 hours

Course Description: This course teaches how to recognize and respond to life-threatening emergencies such as cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, and foreign-body airway obstruction in adults, children and infants, along with the use of an Automated External Defibrillator.

Course Objectives: Participants will be able to:

• Describe links in the American Heart Association Chain of Survival
• Describe how to activate the local emergency medical services system (EMS)
• Recognize the four major emergencies
• Heart Attack
• Cardiac Arrest
• Stroke
• Foreign Body Airway Obstruction

Participants will demonstrate the following skills:

• Calling 911
• Rescue Breathing for adults, children and infants
• One and Two Person Rescuer CPR for adults, children and infants
• Relief of Foreign Airway Obstruction for adults, children and infants
• Safe Defibrillation with an AED

Participants will be certified through the American Heart Association in Adult, Child and Infant Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillation.

Course Cost: $4.50 without a certification card
$6.00 with a certification card (card must be paid for in cash)

*Minimum Needed to Hold Session: 5 participants for sessions with asterisks

Targeted Audience: Open to all.

Please contact SDDC Training & Development Resources at 605-472-4222 for more information on class schedule.