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BLS-ACLS

This option allows you to complete your ACLS and BLS on the same day. You would complete an online portion of BLS prior to the course. You would then attend the BLS Session prior to the ACLS Program. For more information Call 780-643-6163

$325.00
$325 Base Price
+ $NaN Sherwood Park
+ $0 Price Modifiers
$325 Subtotal
       

BLS Description


Basic Life Support (BLS) Description

(formerly known as BLS for Healthcare Providers)


Basic Life Support (BLS) is the foundational emergency cardiovascular course for all healthcare professionals and first responders intended to help improve patient outcomes. BLS teaches both single-rescuer and team basic life support skills for application in pre-hospital and in-facility settings. Current BLS status is a pre-requisite for advanced and intermediary resuscitation courses and is also a requirement in most healthcare settings. BLS Provider status surpasses requirements for CPR (C) or CPR Healthcare Provider (HCP) unless stated otherwise by an organization or college.

The Heart & Stroke BLS course offers:

  • The latest resuscitation science and adult-learning techniques, from Canada’s leading expert in resuscitation science and education
  • Realistic scenarios, simulations and animations depicting rescuers, teams and patients
  • Course and content flexibility for Heart & Stroke instructors and students, including adaptability to local protocols
  • Upon successful completion, a BLS completion card valid for 12 months


Intended Audience

The Heart & Stroke BLS course is designed for:

  • Healthcare professionals and trained first responders in a wide variety of in-facility and pre-hospital settings
  • People who require BLS Provider status and CPR training to enter into a healthcare-related job or program


Course Overview and Design

All BLS courses focus on the essential skills rescuers need to know to perform high-quality CPR in a wide variety of settings. After successfully completing one of our BLS courses, students will be able to:

  • Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
  • Describe and apply all of the steps of the Chain of Survival
  • Perform high-quality CPR for an adult, child, and infant
  • Describe and demonstrate the important early use of an automated external defibrillator (AED)
  • Provide effective ventilations using a barrier device
  • Perform as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR
  • Describe and apply the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for an adult, child, and infant

ACLS Description


Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Course Description

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) is a video-based, Instructor-led, advanced course, builds on the foundation of basic life support (BLS) skills. It emphasizes the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR and takes healthcare provider training to the next level- highlighting the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes. 

The Heart and Stroke Foundations ACLS Course offers:
  •  The latest resuscitation science for improved patient outcomes
  •  Realistic scenarios, simulations, and animations depicting rescuers, teams, and patients
  •  Course and content flexibility for Heart and Stroke Foundation Instructors and students, including adaptability to local protocols

Intended Audience:

The Heart and Stroke Foundations ACLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies. This includes personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care, and critical care units such as physicians, nurses, and paramedics, as well as others who need an ACLS course completion card for job or other requirements. 

It is highly recommended that only those who will use the skills of ACLS within their scope of practice take the ACLS Course. All students who meet the prerequisites and successfully pass the ACLS course will receive a course completion card. Receipt of a course completion card does not grant permission to practice the skills learned

Course Overview and Design:

Scientific evidence has pointed the way toward better content, while educational research has led to improved design of the Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Provider Course. Both the design and the content of the Heart and Stroke Foundation ACLS Provider Course are evidence based.
The ACLS Provider Course emphasizes 3 major concepts:
  •  The crucial importance of high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to patient survival
  •  The integration of effective basic life support (BLS) with ACLS interventions
  •  The importance of effective team interaction and communication during resuscitation

The course is designed to give students the opportunity to practice and demonstrate proficiency in the following skills used in resuscitation:
  •  Systematic approach
  •  High-quality BLS
  •  Airway management
  •  Rhythm recognition
  •  Defibrillation
  •  Intravenous (IV)/intraosseous (IO) access (information only)
  •  Use of medications
  •  Cardioversion
  •  Transcutaneous pacing
  •  Team dynamics
Students will practice the application of these and other skills in simulated cases and will practice both Team Leader and team member roles.

ACLS Course Duration: Course duration’s provided are based upon a student-instructor ratio for learning stations of 6:1, and does not include additional times needed for breaks or transitions, or additional students. 

Provider Course -Approximate course duration: 12 hours 20 minutes 
ACLS Renewal Couse duration -Approximate course duration: 6 hours and 35 minutes

Course completion card expiration date:

The current recommended timeline for renewal of the ACLS course completion card is every 2 years.