Instructor-led, hands-on class format
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CPR, AED, and Basic First Aid Course Length
CPR, AED, and Basic First Aid Certification Period
2 Years
CPR, AED and Basic First Aid Course Description
Safeguard CPR offers CPR, AED and Basic First Aid training to help students develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to respond in a medical emergency. CPR, AED and Basic First Aid is designed to include a significant amount of hands-on skill practice. To provide flexibility in meeting the needs of students, Safeguard CPR offers the ASHI CPR, AED, and Basic First Aid training program in the following certification options: Adult Only — Common to meet workplace compliance Adult and Child Adult, Child, and Infant — Broad training for most
CPR, AED, and Basic First Aid Course Topics
First Aid Provider
• Legal Considerations
• Recognizing an Emergency
• Deciding to Help
• Personal Safety
• Infectious Bloodborne Diseases
• Standard Precautions
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Emergency Medical Services
(EMS)
• Emergency Moves
• Sudden Cardiac Arrest
• Oxygen and the Human Body
• Early Defibrillation
• Chain of Survival
• Secondary Cardiac Arrest
• Opioid Overdose
• Cardiac Arrest—Children
and Infants
• Chest Compressions
• Rescue Breaths
• CPR Masks and Shields
• Unresponsive and Not
Breathing—CPR
• Automated External
Defibrillators (AEDs)
• AED Operation
• AEDs – Children and Infants
• AED Troubleshooting and Other
Considerations
• Primary Assessment–
Unresponsive
• Unresponsive— Recovery
Position
• Multiple Provider Approach
to CPR
• Choking
• Primary Assessment–
Responsive
• Secondary Assessment
• Control of Bleeding
• Tourniquets
• Hemostatic Dressings
• Internal Bleeding
• Shock
• Amputation
• Impaled Object
• Open Chest Injury
• Open Abdominal Injury
• Head, Neck, or Back Injury
• Swollen, Painful, Deformed Limb
• Burns
• Nosebleed
• Injured Tooth
• Sudden Illness
• Altered Mental Status
• Fainting