Course description
This Basic Life Support (BLS) course outlines the international BLS guidelines based on the latest 2020-2025 ILCOR recommendations and compares them to the 2015-2020 version. We explore the details and categories that changed in delivering BLS and CPR to people of all ages and break down these life-saving techniques into easy steps.
We then discuss what to do once you arrive at the scene, alone or as part of a group. We show you how to check for responsiveness, use automated external defibrillators (AEDs), and open the patient’s airways if they struggle to breathe. We also take you through mouth-to-mouth and mouth-to-mask ventilation.
The free course can be accessed anytime and anywhere, and you can learn at your own pace. The skills you pick up here could help you save a life one day, so sign up to qualify for international accreditation, which indicates that you have received this valuable training. The certificate you earn here could help you become your workplace’s safety officer. Still, its value lies in the knowledge that you could protect those around you in an emergency, including those involving children in the home.
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Training content
General Concepts of Basic Life Support
Description: This module will explain the general concepts of basic life support. We will include the keys for basic life support and the changes made in the basic life support guidelines from 2010 to 2015. We will also examine how to provide high-quality CPR and how to start the chain of survival in adults, children and infants. We will also cover BLS/CPR for adults and evaluate the steps towards providing CPR to an adult.
- Learning Outcomes
- 2020 BLS Guideline Changes
- Initiating Chain of Survival
- General Concepts of Basic Life Support
- One Rescuer BLS/CPR for Adults
- Two-Rescuer BLS/CPR for Adults
- Adult Mouth-to-Mask and Bag-Mask Ventilation
- Use of Automated External Defibrillator
- Lesson Summary
BLS and AED for Infants and Children
Description: This module will define the similarities between the BLS guidelines for adults and children. We will discuss how to perform BLS for children if there is one rescuer available and when there are two rescuers available. We will also examine the child ventilation algorithm and describe what to do if you find yourself alone with an infant in need of CPR. The course will also describe how to administer an AED to children and infants.
- Learning Outcomes
- BLS for Children 1 – 8 Years
- One and Two-Rescuer BLS for Children
- Child Ventilation
- One and Two-Rescuer BLS for Infants (0 to 12 months old)
- AED for Children and Infants
- Lesson Summary
BLS Skills Videos and Airway Management
Description: This module will indicate how to perform CPR/BLS to both adults and infants whether there is one rescuer or two rescuers at the scene. We will examine how to use an AED for adults and infants and how to perform the head-tilt chin-lift maneuver. This module will also identify how to perform the mouth to mask rescue breathing and how to deliver mouth to mouth for adults and older children.
- Learning Outcomes
- Mouth-to-Mouth Rescue Breathing
- Rescue Breathing
- Relief of Choking For Adults, Children and Infants
- BLS Skills Videos
- Lesson Summary
Course assessment
- Assessment: Basic Life Support (BLS) Course Assessment
Certification / Credits
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the details of the 2020-2025 guideline changes in basic life support
- Discuss how to perform adult mouth-to-mask ventilation
- Outline ‘bag-mask’ ventilation in two-rescuer CPR for adults
- Outline the steps of performing CPR on children
- Explain the one-rescuer and the two-rescuer BLS for infants between 0 to 12 months old
- Identify the AED steps for children and infants
- Paraphrase the adult ‘chain of survival’ and its pediatric counterpart
- Distinguish between one-rescuer and the two-rescuer BLS for children
- Illustrate how to open a child’s airway
- Explain how to deliver mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing
- Explain how to perform mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing on adults and older children
- Explain how to perform mouth-to-mouth and nose-rescue breathing for infants
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