Description

Basic Life Support (BLS) is the foundational course for healthcare professionals and trained first responders who provide care to infants, children, and adults in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings. BLS is the cornerstone program for healthcare professionals.

As the gold standard, Heart & Stroke’s BLS training courses teach the theoretical and hands-on skills needed to respond to medical emergencies and drives the best possible patient outcomes.

In this course, you will learn the fundamental skills of high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for victims of all ages. You will practice delivering these skills as a single rescuer and as a member of a multi-rescuer team.

The skills you learn in BLS will enable you to:

Recognize a cardiac arrest
Activate the emergency response system early
Respond quickly and confidently
Perform high-quality single-rescuer CPR and multi-rescuer team CPR

This course will ensure people in cardiac arrest have the best chance of survival.

Features

Reflects the most recent science from the 2020 Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC and adapted for Canada’s unique clinical health care practice, pharmacology and systems of care.
Incorporates use of feedback devices, proven to improve learning and skills mastery, into the programming during in-person practice and testing.
Reinforces the importance of direct hands-on practice and coaching in acquiring and elevating skills proficiency.
Emphasizes the critical importance of high-quality CPR, including coordinated team dynamics.
Provides engaging video-based content with real world scenarios.

Content

The BLS course focuses on building knowledge so you are confident and ready to perform high-quality CPR in a wide variety of settings. The course covers:

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 ventilations using a bag-mask device
EXPANDED: Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies
NEW: Role of the CPR coach; Maternal cardiac arrest; Anaphylaxis; Drowning; Heart attack and stroke; and, Other life-threatening emergencies

CME/CPD Credits & Accreditation

1 Year Certification
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada: 2 credits per hour under Section 2 of the MOC Program as “Traineeships”.
Check with your college or professional affiliation to see if this course is eligible for credits

BLS Provider