Washington, DC BLS Certification, PALS, CPR and ACLS Classes in Alexandria Virginia

ACLS Provider Class, Alexandria, VA $300

AHA’s ACLS Course has been updated to reflect new science in the 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. This course builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR.This advanced course highlights the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS).

ACLS Provider Skills Session Alexandria, VA $125

ACLS Update Course, Alexandria, VA $225

AHA’s ACLS Course has been updated to reflect new science in the 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. This course builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR.This advanced course highlights the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS).

BLS Provider Class, Alexandria Va $95

The BLS Course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED.

In the Instructor-led course, students participate in simulated clinical scenarios and learning stations. Students work with an AHA BLS Instructor to complete BLS skills practice and skills testing. Students also complete a written exam.

Features
• Updated science and education from the new 2015 AHA Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC
• Instructor-led, hands-on class format reinforces skills proficiency
• Emphasis on high-quality CPR including a team dynamics classroom activity
• Video-based course with real world scenarios

BLS Provider Skills Session Alexandria, VA $65

The BLS Course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED.

In the Instructor-led course, students participate in simulated clinical scenarios and learning stations. Students work with an AHA BLS Instructor to complete BLS skills practice and skills testing. Students also complete a written exam.

Features

• Updated science and education from the new 2015 AHA Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC

• Instructor-led, hands-on class format reinforces skills proficiency

• Emphasis on high-quality CPR including a team dynamics classroom activity

• Video-based course with real world scenarios

BLS Provider Skills Session - Baltimore MD $65

HeartCode BLS uses a variety of eLearning assets such as dramatizations, eSimulations, animations, self-directed learning, and interactive activities to teach students BLS knowledge and skills.

After completing the online portion, students attend a structured BLS Hands-On Session with an AHA Instructor. This session focuses on meaningful skills practice, debriefing, team scenarios, discussions of local protocols, and skills testing. Where available, students may also complete the hands-on session with a voice-assisted manikin (VAM).

HeartCode BLS is for healthcare professionals seeking an alternative method for completing an initial or renewal BLS Course.

Features

•Updated science and education reflecting the 2015 AHA Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC

•Includes in-facility and prehospital tracks; student chooses his/her track before starting the HeartCode BLS Online Portion

•Enhanced learning experience through eSimulations, life-like animations, video scenarios, and knowledge checks

•Accessible version available for students with hearing, vision, and/or motor impairments on OnlineAHA.org only.

Course Content

•New science and education from the 2015 AHA Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC

•The components of high-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants

•The AHA Chain of Survival for prehospital and in-facility providers

•Important early use of an AED

•Effective ventilations using a barrier device

•Importance of teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR

•Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants

AHA Approved Distributors

Visit one of our Distributors to purchase course materials.

Channing Bete Company

Laerdal Medical Corporation

WorldPoint

eLearning

Purchase and complete eLearning and blended learning courses

Go to OnlineAHA.org to register and complete online courses.

Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Class Alexandria Va $150.

100% classroom training means students are with an AHA Instructor for their entire learning experience.

Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills needed to respond to and manage an emergency until emergency medical services arrives. Skills covered in this course include first aid; choking relief in adults, children, and infants; and what to do for sudden cardiac arrest in adults, children, and infants.

This course teaches skills with the AHA’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback, and guide the students’ learning of skills.

Features

•Video-based course ensures consistency

•Instructor-led, hands-on class format reinforces skills proficiency

•Course is updated with the new science from the 2015 AHA Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

Course Content

•First aid basics

•Medical emergencies

•Injury emergencies

•Environmental emergencies

•Preventing illness and injury

•Adult CPR and AED use

•Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies

•Child CPR and AED use

•Infant CPR

•Optional modules in child CPR and AED use and infant CPR

•Optional exam

Learning Objectives

After successfully completing this course, students should be able to

•List the priorities, roles, and responsibilities of first aid rescuers

•Describe the key steps in first aid

•Remove protective gloves

•Find the problem

•Describe the assessment and first aid actions for the following life-threatening conditions: heart attack, difficulty breathing, choking, severe bleeding, shock, and stroke

•Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child

•Demonstrate how to help a choking infant

•Use an epinephrine pen

•Control bleeding and bandaging

•Recognize elements of common injuries

•Recognize elements of common illnesses

•Describe how to find information on preventing illness and injury

•Recognize the legal questions that apply to first aid rescuers

•Describe how high-quality CPR improves survival

•Explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival

•Recognize when someone needs CPR

•Perform high-quality CPR for an adult

•Describe how to perform CPR with help from others

•Give effective breaths using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups

•Demonstrate how to use an AED on an adult

•Perform high-quality CPR for a child

•Demonstrate how to use an AED on a child

•Perform high-quality CPR for an infant

•Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child

•Demonstrate how to help a choking infant

Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Skills Session, Alexandria, VA $65

The AHA's Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Course has been updated to reflect new science in the 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care and the 2015 American Heart Association and American Red Cross Update for First Aid. This course is designed to prepare students to provide first aid, CPR, and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner.

Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Online is the eLearning portion of the Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED blended learning course and is designed to teach students the cognitive information needed for first aid, CPR, and AED training.

Upon successful completion of both the online and hands-on portions of the course, students receive a Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED course completion card, valid for two years.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Describe how high-quality CPR improves survival
Explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival
Recognize when someone needs CPR
Perform high-quality CPR for an adult
Describe how to perform CPR with help from others
Give effective breaths by using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
Demonstrate how to use an AED on an adult
Perform high-quality CPR for a child*
Demonstrate how to use an AED on a child*
Perform high-quality CPR for an infant*
Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child
Demonstrate how to help a choking infant*
List the priorities, roles, and responsibilities of first aid rescuers
Describe the key steps in first aid
Remove protective gloves
Find the problem
Describe the assessment and first aid actions for the following life-threatening conditions: heart attack, difficulty breathing, choking, severe bleeding, shock, and stroke
Use an epinephrine pen
Control bleeding and bandaging
Recognize elements of common injuries
Recognize elements of common illnesses
Describe how to find information on preventing illness and injury
Recognize the legal questions that apply to first aid rescuers

PALS Skills Session, Alexandria VA $125

Updated with 2015 AHA Guidelines for CPR & ECC

AHA Blended Learning courses combine the flexibility of online training with in-person skills practice and testing.

HeartCode® PALS

HeartCode® PALS is an online comprehensive eLearning program that uses eSimulation technology to allow students to assess and treat patients in virtual healthcare settings. In this environment, students apply their knowledge to real-time decision-making and skills development.

To enter the course, students must complete the PALS Precourse Self-Assessment. Students are then presented with 12 In-hospital patient cases and a team dynamics lesson. Cases may be repeated as many times as necessary to pass. Upon successful completion of all the patient cases, students must pass the multiple-choice exam with a minimum score of 84%.

Students who successfully complete the online portion of the course receive a certificate granting them access to a PALS Hands-on Session with an AHA PALS Instructor. Students must successfully complete both the online portion and the hands-on session to receive a PALS Provider course completion card (print or eCard).

Features

•Web-based, self-paced eSimulation instructional program for PALS cognitive training

•Students apply knowledge to real-time decision-making and skills development

•Debriefings and coaching are provided immediately after each simulation to facilitate learning

•Access to the PALS Provider Manual, the 2015 Handbook of ECC, and 2015 AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC

•Access to all information in course for two years following activation of course

Course Content

•Performing high-quality Child CPR AED and Infant CPR per AHA BLS recommendations

•Differentiating between patients who do and do not require immediate intervention

•Recognizing cardiopulmonary arrest early and beginning CPR within 10 seconds

•Applying team dynamics

•Differentiating between respiratory distress and failure

•Performing early interventions for respiratory distress and failure

•Differentiating between compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock

•Performing early interventions for the treatment of shock

•Differentiating between unstable and stable patients with arrhythmias

•Describing clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias

•Implementing post–cardiac arrest management

Purchase Options:

AHA Approved Distributors

Visit one of our Distributors to purchase course materials.

Channing Bete Company

Laerdal Medical Corporation

WorldPoint

eLearning

Purchase and complete eLearning and blended learning courses

Go to OnlineAHA.org to register and complete online courses.

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