🏥 Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification

American Red Cross Certification – Valid for 2 Years

The American Red Cross Basic Life Support (BLS) course equips participants with the critical knowledge and hands-on skills needed to assess, recognize, and care for patients experiencing respiratory arrest, cardiac arrest, airway obstruction, or opioid overdose.

Designed for healthcare providers and public safety professionals, this course emphasizes the importance of swift, high-quality care and teaches participants to integrate psychomotor skills with critical thinking and problem-solving to achieve the best possible patient outcomes.

🛟 Course Options:

Instructor-Led (Classroom): Traditional in-person training led by a certified Red Cross Instructor.
Blended Learning: A combination of online coursework and in-person skill sessions for flexibility.
Review and Challenge Options: Abbreviated classroom formats available for experienced providers needing recertification or skills testing.

Learning Objectives

Apply concepts of effective teamwork when caring for a patient experiencing a life-threatening emergency.
Integrate communication, critical-thinking and problem-solving skills during a high-performance BLS team response.
Apply a systematic, continuous approach to assess, recognize and care for adults, children and infants experiencing a life-threatening emergency.
Perform a rapid assessment for responsive and unresponsive adults, children and infants.
• Effectively care for adults, children and infants in respiratory arrest.
State the principles of high-quality CPR for adults, children and infants.
Identify BLS differences among adults, children and infants.
Provide high-quality chest compressions for adults, children and infants.
Deliver effective ventilations to adults, children and infants using a pocket mask and bag-valve- mask (BVM) resuscitator.
Demonstrate effective use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) for adults, children and infants.
Provide high-quality BLS care for adults, children and infants in single- and multiple-provider situations.
Deliver effective abdominal thrusts, back blows and chest thrusts for adults, children and infants with airway obstruction.
State the principles of care for a patient experiencing an opioid overdose.

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Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification