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Basic Life Support (BLS)
Course sessions on January 11 & 12, 2025 are for Medical Students at Queens University in Kingston (HST included)
Basic Life Support – BLS Provider
(Formerly known as BLS for Healthcare Providers)
Basic Life Support (BLS) is the foundation for saving lives after cardiac arrest. It is designed for healthcare providers and trained first responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of settings, and teaches both single-rescuer and team basic life support skills for application in pre-hospital and in-facility settings.
The new BLS Provider Course is equivalent to the BLS for Healthcare Providers (BLS for HCP) course it replaces.
Basic Life Support course information is outlined in the BLS Description. Participation in these courses is determined by the needs and interests of each BLS provider.
Intended Audience: This course is designed for healthcare providers and trained first responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings or by those that require BLS certification and CPR training to enter into a healthcare-related training program.
It is our policy that courses are pre-paid no later than14 days prior to date.
This allows us to plan for additional instructors, prepare course material and receipts.
REFUNDS / CANCELLATIONS
BCLSguy reserves the right to cancel a course due to insufficient registration or any circumstances that are beyond our control.
In this case, you will be notified approximately 1 week prior to the course start date.
Within 6 months of cancellation, you may request a full refund or transfer at no additional cost.
Please note that if you have to cancel, do so promptly! (NO EXCEPTIONS)
Participants who cancel more than 14 days prior to the course date will be reimbursed.
A non-refundable fee of 25% applies to ALL cancellations or re-bookings.
No refunds for the following:
1. No-shows and cancellations less than two (2) weeks before start of the course.
2. Participants who attend a BLS renewal course without:
- Current Heart & Stroke BLS Provider status taken within the last 12 months OR
- Heart & Stroke BLS Renewal Prerequisite Challenge Certificate received after completing the online challenge.
- Any course material, print or digital
3. If access to premises is denied by the hospital where the course is held. (e.g.: If you are not a staff member)
Looking forward to seeing you at the course.
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BLS Description
(Replacement for BLS for Healthcare Providers)
Basic Life Support (BLS) is the foundation for saving lives after cardiac arrest. It is designed for healthcare professionals and trained first responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of settings, and teaches both single-rescuer and team basic life support skills for application in pre-hospital and in-facility settings.
The Heart & Stroke BLS 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 & Stroke instructors and students, including adaptability to local protocols
Intended Audience:
The Heart & Stroke BLS course is designed for healthcare professionals and trained first responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of both in-facility and prehospital settings or by those that require BLS certification and CPR training to enter into a healthcare-related training program
The BLS Provider course teaches learners to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations, and provide early use of an AED. It includes adult, child, and infant rescue techniques. The BLS provider course includes realistic scenarios, simulations and state-of-the-art animations, and incorporates Heart & Stroke’s proven practice-while-watching video format to bring the science of the 2015 Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC to the front-line practitioner.
Course Overview and Design:
The BLS course focuses on teaching the essential skills rescuers need to know to perform high-quality CPR in a wide variety of settings. After successfully completing the BLS Course, students should be able to:
• Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
• Describe all of the steps of the Chain of Survival
• Apply the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival
• Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
• Perform high-quality CPR for an adult
• Describe the importance of early use of an automated external defibrillator (AED)
• Demonstrate the appropriate use of an AED
• Provide effective ventilations by using a barrier device
• Perform high-quality CPR for a child
• Perform high-quality CPR for an infant
• Describe the importance of teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation
• Perform as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR
• Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for an adult or child
• Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for an infant
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