Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers Initial or Renewal/Update Course

This American Heart Association (AHA) course combines lecture, video, and skills practice/testing sessions to teach basic life support techniques to healthcare providers.

  • Initial course is approximately 5 hours
  • Renewal/update course is approximately 4 hours

Important concepts

  • Circulation: Circulation techniques using chest compressions for one and two rescuers for adult and infant, and defibrillation, or the use of the automatic external defibrillator (AED). 
  • Airway: Opening airway techniques and techniques to relieve conscious and unconscious choking in adult, child, and infant.
  • Breathing: Ventilation with barrier device and use of the bag-mask.

An AHA BLS-HCP course completion card will be issued upon successful completion of skills demonstration and written examination.

Requirements:

  • Initial: None
  • Renewal: Valid BLS-HCP card

Credits: None

Event Details

1451 S. California Avenue
Palo Alto, CA, 94304

Fee: $105, includes 2010 student manual