General BLS Skills Session Information

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The BLS Skills Session (HeartCode BLS) uses a variety of eLearning assets such as dramatizations, eSimulations, animations, self-directed learning, and interactive activities to teach students BLS knowledge and skills.

After completing the online portion, students attend a structured BLS Hands-On Session with an AHA Instructor. This session focuses on meaningful skills practice, debriefing, team scenarios, discussions of local protocols, and skills testing. Where available, students may also complete the hands-on session with a voice-assisted manikin (VAM).

HeartCode BLS is for healthcare professionals seeking an alternative method for completing an initial or renewal BLS Course.

Features:

• Updated science and education reflecting the 2015 AHA Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC
• Includes in-facility and prehospital tracks; student chooses his/her track before starting the HeartCode BLS Online Portion
• Enhanced learning experience through eSimulations, life-like animations, video scenarios, and knowledge checks

Course Content:

• New science and education from the 2015 AHA Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC
• The components of high-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
• The AHA Chain of Survival for prehospital and in-facility providers
  
• Important early use of an AED
• Effective ventilations using a barrier device
• Importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
• Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants

Course Completion Card:

• AHA BLS Course Completion Card is valid for two years

*The information above was taken from the American Heart Association website.

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