American Heart Association (AHA) Courses
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
ACLS is an advanced, instructor-led classroom course that highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care and immediate post- cardiac arrest care. It also covers airway management and related pharmacology. In this course, skills are taught in larger, group sessions and small, group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented.
Initial provider course requires approximately 10-12 hours to complete, including skills practice and testing. Renewal course requires approximately 5-6 hours, including skills practice and testing.
Upon successful course completion, including demonstration of skills competency in all learning stations and passing CPR and AED skills test, BVM skills test, a Megacode test and written exam, students receive an ACLS course completion card, valid for two years.
We also offer the complete skills testing should you decide to utilize the AHA online course. Call for pricing and details.
Pediatric Advanced Life Support
This classroom, video-based, instructor-led course uses a series of simulated pediatric emergencies to reinforce the important concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation and team dynamics. the goal of the PALS course is to improve the quality of care provided to seriously ill or injured children, resulting in imporoved outcomes. We offer skills station testing for completion of the on-line version of this course.
Basic Life Support (BLS)
The Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers course is designed to provide a wide variety of healthcare professionals the ability to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, provide CPR, use an AED, and relieve choking in a safe, timely and effective manor. Skills testing is also available for the completion of the on-line course as well.
Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)
NAEMT's Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) is recognized around the world as the leading continuing education program for prehospital emergency trauma care. The mission of PHTLS is to promote excellence in trauma patient management by all providers involved in the delivery of prehospital care. PHTLS is developed by NAEMT in cooperation with the American College of Surgeons' Committee on Trauma. The Committee provides the medical direction and content oversight for the PHTLS program.
PHTLS courses improve the quality of trauma care and decrease mortality. The program is based on a philosophy stressing the treatment of the multi-system trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. PHTLS promotes critical thinking as the foundation for providing quality care. It is based on the belief that, given a good fund of knowledge and key principles, EMS practitioners are capable of making reasoned decisions regarding patient care.
The course utilizes the internationally recognized PHTLS textbook and covers the following topics:
Physiology of life and death
Scene assessment
Patient assessment
Hemorrhage control
Airway
Breathing, ventilation, and oxygenation
Circulation and shock
Special populations
The American Heart Association strongly promotes knowledge and
proficiency in BLS, ACLS, and PALS and has developed
instructional materials for this purpose. Use of these materials in
an educational course does not represent course sponsorship by the
American Heart Association, and any fees charged for such a
course do not represent income to the Association.