Course covers recognition and emergency resuscitation techniques
for adult heart attack, cardiac arrest, stroke; injury and cardiac
arrest prevention; recognition and treatment of cardiac emergencies
and choking in infants and children.
For the responder who is required to have a credential for
course completion. Course covers recognition and emergency
resuscitation techniques for all adult heart attack, cardiac arrest,
stroke; injury and cardiac arrest prevention; recognition and
treatment of cardiac emergencies and choking in infants and children,
and barrier devices.
Course contains information including adult CPR, treatment for
the adult choking victim, the use of the AED's as well as the use of a
barrier device. We also teach the students how to recognize four
major emergencies: heart attack, stroke, cardiac arrest, and foreign
body airway obstructions.
Course delivers information on adult and pediatric CPR
(including two-rescuer scenarios and use of Bag-valve mask);
foreign-body airway obstruction (both conscious and unconscious);
automated external defibrillation; special resuscitation situations;
and other cardiopulmonary emergencies.
Course allows the student to teach the following courses: CPR
for Family and Friends; Heartsaver CPR (for lay responders);
Heartsaver AED; and BLS for Healthcare Providers.
The Heartsaver FACTS program targets all lay responders, such as firefighters,
police, commercial airline crews, security personnel, employees in the workplace,
family members of patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death, and other laypersons.
These responders are trained in the use of adult CPR with barrier devices, relief of
foreign-body airway obstruction (FBAO), use of automated external defibrillation in
adults, victim assessment, bleeding control, and immobilization.
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