BLS Provider Level C
- 1/2 Day
- Classroom Based
- Minimum 10 - Maximum 16
- No prerequisites
Overview
Basic Life Support (BLS) teaches participants how to respond to emergences with basic life support skills. Designed for pre-hospital and in-facility settings, students will learn CPR skills for all ages, use of an automated external defibrillator (AED), and clearing a blocked airway.
The First Aid programs taught by Arctic Response meet or exceed national, territorial and provincial standards.
Course Content
- Chain of Survival
- 1-rescuer / 2-rescuer CPR
- High-quality chest compressions with a feedback device
- Multi-rescuer team CPR
- Adult, Child and Infant CPR and relief of choking
- Use of an AED
- Effective ventilation using a barrier device and bag-mask device
- Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies
- Role of the CPR coach
- Maternal cardiac arrest
- Anaphylaxis; Drowning
- Heart attack and stroke
- Other life-threatening emergencies