The Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers Classroom Course is designed to provide a wide variety of healthcare professionals the ability to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, provide CPR, use an AED, and relieve choking in a safe, timely and effective manner.

Intended Participants

Any healthcare professional who needs to know how to perform CPR, as well as other lifesaving skills, in a wide variety of in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings.

Course Content:

• Key changes in basic life support, reflecting the new science from the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care.
• Critical concepts of high-quality CPR
• The American Heart Association Chain of Survival
• 1-Rescuer CPR and AED for adult, child and infant
• 2-Rescuer CPR and AED for adult, child and infant
• Differences between adult, child and infant rescue techniques
• Bag-mask techniques for adult, child and infant
• Rescue breathing for adult, child and infant
• Relief of choking for adult, child and infant
• CPR with an advanced airway

Course Length: - 8 hours

Student Materials

• BLS for Healthcare Providers Manual
• Written / Skills Exam
• AHA Card - On course completion (valid globally)

ACLS is an advanced, instructor-led classroom course that highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care and immediate post-cardiac-arrest care. It also covers airway management and related pharmacology. In this course, skills are taught in large, group sessions and small, group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented.

Intended Participants

ACLS is designed for healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest and other cardiovascular emergencies. This includes personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care, and critical care units.

Course Content:

• Key changes in advanced cardiovascular life support, reflecting the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
• Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device defibrillator
• Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest
• Recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia, unstable tachycardia etc
• Airway management
• Related pharmacology
• Management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and stroke
• Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team
• Effective Resuscitation Team Dynamics

Course Length :-2 days(16hrs)

Student Materials

• ACLS Provider Manual, Required or ACLS Text, Reference
• Written / Skills Exam - Required for completion card.
• AHA Card - On course completion (valid globally.)

AHA INSTRUCTOR COURSES

An AHA Instructor course teaches the methods needed to effectively instruct others in resuscitation courses.

Instructor Course Prerequisites:

Before attending the discipline-specific classroom portion of an instructor Course, all instructor candidates must

• Be accepted by an AHA Training center ( LIHS) before taking the course.
• Have current provider status in the discipline they wish to teach.
• Have completed an Instructor Candidate Application.
• Complete the online essential module.
• Be proficient in all the skills of the disciplines they will teach.

Course Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

• Reveal proficiency in current BLS skills and concepts
• Demonstrate proper function and use of BLS teaching equipments
• Teach a BLS course using the video instruction and lesson maps
• Demonstrate ability allow students to practice BLS while watching the video
• Demonstrate ability to evaluate students fairly and provide appropriate remediation if needed
• Understand and perform defibrillation and transcutaneous pacing
• Use testing materials to conduct skills testing

Duration: One day

Target Audience:

American Heart Association BLS providers who would like to become instructors for Basic Life Support Provider Course

Student Materials

• Instructor Material
• AHA Card - On course completion

Course Objectives:

On completion of the course, the candidates will be able to:

• Reveal proficiency in current ACLS skills and concepts
• Demonstrate proper function and use of ACLS teaching equipment
  • Teach a ACLS course using the video instruction and lesson maps
  • Demonstrate ability to teach ACLS concepts in a small group setting
  • Demonstrate ability to evaluate students fairly and provide appropriate remediation if needed
  • Use testing materials to conduct skills testing

Duration: One day

Target Audience:

American Heart Association ACLS provider who would like to become instructors for Advance Cardiovascular

Life Support Provider Course

Student Materials

• Instructor Material
• AHA Card - On course completion valid

Booking for the seats & Course materials can be obtained from the office of Lourdes Academy of Health Sciences (Contact No: 412 5144), Lourdes Hospital, Ernakulam

BLS &ACLS PROVIDER COURSE
(1 + 2 day course 8.30am-4.30 pm everyday)
COURSE FEE: Rs. 7500/-

BLS PROVIDER COURSE
(1 day course 8. 30am-4.30 pm )
COURSE FEE: Rs. 3000/-

BLS /ACLS INSTRUCTOR COURSE
(2 days course 8. 30am-4.30 pm )
COURSE FEE: Rs. 19000/-

Disclaimer
Textbook or Student Manual
Each student must have the current, appropriate course textbook of their own readily available for use before, during, and after the course. Textbooks are designed for individual use and are an integral part of the student's education. Students may reuse their textbooks during renewals or updates until new science guidelines are published.
The American Heart Association (AHA) designs our resuscitation courses using the most current educational design concepts. In order to maximize the student's learning potential and keep course length manageable, we have designed the classroom courses with the intent that students will have the opportunity to study the course materials outside of the class itself. It is necessary that students have access to student manuals before,during, and after each course, especially if the students are less familiar with the skills.

We have taken steps to increase availability of our student materials by:

• Increasing the number of distributors that we have worldwide.
• Producing an eBook that can be easily purchased and accessed.
• Posting pre-course materials online for free for some courses.

AHA International Training Centers (ITCs) must have a policy to ensure that each student has their own manual for each course. The ITC's internal process should ensure that students receive the manuals with a reasonable amount of time to study prior to the course. ITCs, and their sites, should not maintain libraries of AHA manuals to rent or loan out to students.