Courses for Health Professionals
 
Type of Course Course Outline Cost
Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers BLS for Healthcare Providers is designed for healthcare professionals, including physicians, dentists, nurses, paramedics, EMT’s, nursing assistants/practical nurses, and a wide variety of persons working in the healthcare industry.

The content for the BLS for Healthcare Providers Course is extensive and the curriculum includes relief of Foreign Body Airway Obstruction (FBAO) in responsive and unresponsive victims, bag-mask ventilation as well as rescue breathing with mouth-to-mouth and mouth-to-barrier device ventilation, use of an AED for adults, and 2-rescuer CPR.

1 Day or 2 Day Course
Day course for prices, bookings and further information contact us

2 Day course for prices, bookings and further information contact

Includes manual and American Heart Association Certification


Advanced Cardiac Life
Support (ACLS)
This course will provide guided training and hands-on-practice in the key skills of BLS and ACLS.

Key ACLS skills include:

• Use of conventional defibrillator/monitors to
   defibrillate and cardiovert.
• Use of transcutaneous pacing devices
• Provision of advanced airway management, a
   laryngeal mask airway and tracheal tubes.
• Use of oesophageal detector devices
• Recognition of cardiac arrest rhythms and the
   most common bradycardias and tachycardias.
• Recognition of signs of acute injury and ischemia
   on the 12-lead ECG
• Initiation of IV access

1 Day course for prices, bookings and further information contact


Includes manual and American Heart Association Certification
 
   
   
 
  • Administration of medications via the IV and
  tracheal routes.

Paediatric Life Support (PALS) At the end of this course participants will:

• Have the skills and knowledge to reduce the risk of
   the most common causes of cardiac arrest and
   death in infants and children.

•  Be able to identify and treat patients in a prearrest
    condition.

•  Be able to provide paediatric basic life support.
•  Be able to recognize the signs of impending
    respiratory failure and shock.

•  Be able to initiate treatment of impending and
   overt respiratory failure and shock.
•  Be able to stabilize and evaluate paediatric
   trauma victims, including appropriate spinal
   immobilization.
• Be able to initiate the first ten (10) minutes of
   resuscitation of the paediatric victim of cardiac
   arrest
•  Be able to identify and appropriately treat rhythm
   disturbances, which includes knowing how to use
   an AED safely and correctly for children 8 years of
   age and older.
2 Day course for prices, bookings and further information contact

Includes manual and American Heart Association Certification
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