This course teaches:

• Adult/child CPR with mask
• Adult/child choking
• Adult/child AED use
• Optional modules in infant CPR and choking

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Duration: 2.5 hours online; 45 minute skills session at training center. Skills session sold separately.

Renew your certification every two years.

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This course teaches:

• First aid basics
• Medical emergencies
• Injury emergencies
• Environmental emergencies

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Duration: 1-2 hours online, 30 min.

skills session at training center. Skills session sold separately.

Renew your certification every two years.

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This course teaches:

• First aid basics
• Medical emergencies
• Adult/child CPR with mask
• Adult/child choking
• Adult/child AED use

Duration: 2.5 hours online, 45 min. skills session at training center. Skills session sold separately.

Renew your certification every two years.

Click here for Demo Video

blood or blood-containing materials.

This course teaches:

• What bloodborne pathogens are and how they are spread
• Protection from exposure and how to act if exposed
• How to clean up after exposure
• How to tell or report any exposure

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Duration: 1 hour, site-specific instruction varies.AHA provides 24-hour phone

support for questions pertaining to the content in this course.

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1) Always be sure to have all emergency information at your fingertips. Have ways to contact the parents as well as other emergency contacts. Be aware of any medical conditions, allergies, etc. that the child may have. Also be sure to know how to handle any of those conditions or allergies. That information will be important to give to emergency responders.

2) As soon as you find yourself in an emergency situation with a young child, you must follow the three “C”s: check, call and care.

3) Check the situation. Be sure the area is safe for you to enter. For example, if a fire is involved, be sure you can safely reach the child without getting burned yourself. Are there any sharp objects in the way? Are there downed power lines? You will do no good to the injured child if you become injured yourself.

4) Check the child. Is he conscious or unconscious? If unconscious, is he breathing? If he appears unconscious, tap him on the shoulder or gently shake his shoulder and yell, “Are you OK?”

5) Call 911. Designate one individual to do so. Make eye contact with that person and point so that she knows it is her responsibility. If no one else is available, you must make that phone call yourself, ideally on a speakerphone. Do about five sets of CPR before you call. Give all of the emergency information as well as a description of the situation and your location.

6) Care for the child. Use a barrier and gloves, if available.

Here’s a troubling fact that is a motivation to take a course: About 80 percent of cardiac arrests happen at home near family members who often do not know CPR.

CPR, which stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation, employs chest compression and mouth-to-mouth breathing to treat cardiac arrest, heart attack, drowning and electrocution. CPR can keep some blood flowing to the brain and heart during an emergency.

Maintaining blood flow can prevent brain injury and save a life. The brain suffers irreparable damage in a few minutes if it doesn’t get oxygenated blood. An unaided victim of cardiac arrest will die in 5 to 10 minutes.

The most common cause of sudden cardiac arrest is an abnormal heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation (VF), which can be treated with a shock from a defibrillator. Defibrillation is not effective for all forms of cardiac arrest.

There are devices called automated external defibrillators (AEDs) that are about the size of a laptop computer. AEDs analyze the victim’s heart rhythm, determine if defibrillation is needed, then deliver a shock. There are training programs available that teach both CPR and operating AEDs. These portable defibrillators are available in many public places such as shopping malls, airports and stadiums.

To learn CPR properly, take an accredited first-aid training course that includes CPR and how to use an AED.

There is no substitute for taking a course from a trained instructor, but it would be helpful to understand the basics of CPR.

There are helpful illustrated guides and online videos on this website. The following is from one of these guides:

1. CALL. Check the victim for unresponsiveness. If there is no response, Call 911 and return to the victim. In most locations, the emergency dispatcher can assist you with CPR instructions.

2. BLOW. Tilt the head back and listen for breathing. If not breathing normally, pinch nose and cover the mouth with yours and blow until you see the chest rise. Give 2 breaths. Each breath should take 1 second.

3. PUMP. If the victim is still not breathing normally, coughing or moving, begin chest compressions. Push down on the chest 1 1/2 to 2 inches 30 times right between the nipples. Pump at the rate of 100/minute, faster than once per second.

CONTINUE WITH 2 BREATHS AND 30 PUMPS UNTIL HELP ARRIVES