Basic Life Support (CPR & Use of AED for Healthcare Providers)
Basic Life Support training (BLS) certification is often specifically geared towards healthcare professionals (though there are plenty of other people who may need to be certified).
Furthermore, BLS certification places a stronger emphasis on working in teams. It will also teach you how to use additional equipment that is much more likely to be found at hospitals, such as bag valve masks (BVM).
It generally refers to the type of care that first-responders, healthcare providers and public safety professionals provide to anyone who is experiencing cardiac arrest, respiratory distress or an obstructed airway. It requires knowledge and skills in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), using automated external defibrillators (AED) and relieving airway obstructions in patients of every age.
It typically offers more in-depth training in CPR and first aid than a layperson CPR course.
For further information, contact us or call 08177321761.
For Who?
- Healthcare Professionals
- Trained first responders
- Those that require BLS certification and CPR training to enter into a healthcare-related training program.
What Will You Learn?
This course focuses on teaching the essential skills rescuers need to know to perform high-quality CPR in a wide variety of settings. After successfully completion, trainees should be able to:
- Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
- Describe all of the steps of the Chain of Survival
- Apply the concepts of the Chain of Survival
- Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
- Describe the importance of early use of an automated external defibrillator (AED)
- Demonstrate the appropriate use of an AED
- Provide effective ventilations by using a barrier device
- Perform high-quality CPR for a infant, child or adult
- Describe the importance of teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation
- Perform as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR
- Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for an adult or child
- Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for an infant
Class Duration
4 – 5 hours
Assessment and certification
Each candidate is continually assessed throughout the class, with such an assessment being based on participation, verbal questioning and analysis of practical techniques carried out. There is a test at the end which must be passed before certificates are awarded.
- 4 x Practical assessments (each for Infant, Child and Adult)
- 1 x final quiz assessment
Certificate of Completion is presented to each participant at the end of the training for Basic Life Support (Baby/Child/Adult).
Cost
N35,000 per individual (a minimum of 6 in our office; between 8 – 12 participants if at your venue)