Heartsaver AED Course Description

Course Description

The Heartsaver AED Course teaches the basic techniques of adult CPR and how to use an AED. Students also learn about using barrier devices in CPR and giving first aid for choking. The course teaches how to recognize the signs of four major emergencies: heart attack, stroke, cardiac arrest and foreign-body airway obstruction.

Course Length: 3 hours

Intended Audience

Responders such as police, airline personnel, security personnel, corporate employees, family members of patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death, other rescuers, and those who need or want to learn CPR and how to operate an AED.

Student Materials: Heartsaver AED Text

Card Type: Course completion

Written/Skills Exam: Required for completion card

Heartsaver CPR Course Description

Course Description

The Heartsaver CPR Course is a modular course that teaches lay rescuers how to recognize and treat life-threatening emergencies, including cardiac arrest and choking for adult, child and infant victims. Students also learn to recognize the warning signs of heart attack and stroke in adults and breathing difficulties in children. The program is divided into three different courses, providing choices.

* Heartsaver CPR for All Ages

This course teaches CPR and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction in the adult, infant and child.

* Heartsaver CPR for Adults

This course teaches CPR and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for the adult.

* Heartsaver CPR for Infants and Children

This course teaches CPR and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for infants (birth to 1 year of age) and children (1 year to 8 years of age).

Course Length

* All ages: 5 1/2 - 6 hours. .

* Adult only: 3 hours.

* Infant/child only: 3 hours.

Intended Audience

All lay rescuers, such as employees in the workplace, day care employees, babysitters, firefighters, police, airline personnel, security guards, family members of patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death, other lay rescuers, and those who may have a need to respond to an emergency

Student Materials: Heartsaver CPR Text

Card Type: Course completion card (modular)

Written/Skills Exam: Required for completion card

Heartsaver First Aid Course Description

This course provides the skills to effectively assess and maintain life from the critical minutes immediately following an emergency until the arrival of emergency medical services personnel. The course also provides corporations with a complete health and safety training solution for First Aid, CPR and AED.

The Heartsaver First Aid Course has been developed using the same evidence-based process as all American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care courses.

Course Description

The Heartsaver First Aid Course teaches rescuers to effectively recognize and treat adult emergencies in the critical first minutes until emergency medical services personnel arrive. The course also provides a complete health and safety training solution for first aid, adult CPR and AED.

Course Length: 3 - 7 hours

Intended Audience

Persons assigned to respond to emergencies in the workplace or community as well as those who want to learn first aid, CPR and AED skills. Some rescuers are required to take this course as part of their employer’s efforts to comply with OSHA regulations, e.g., corporate employees, security guards, airline personnel, lifeguards and other individuals who want or need first aid training.

Card Type: Course completion

Written/Skills Exam: Required for completion card

information from americanheart.org/