COURSE DESCRIPTION

Designed for registered healthcare professionals (Doctors, nurses, paramedics, and allied healthcare practitioners), and as a prerequisite for ACLS and PALS courses.

The course teaches the skills of CPR and choking for victims of all ages, including ventilation with barrier devices, pocket masks, bag-valve-mask devices, and the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AED).

COURSE CONTENT

The course includes both theoretical and practical components:

• High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants.
• The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components.
• Important early use of an AED.
• Effective ventilations using a barrier device & BVM.
• 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, children and infants.

LEARNING RESOURCES

• A BLS Provider Student Manual is provided to each participant for review before, during and after the course.

TESTING AND CERTIFICATION

• For successful completion of the course, participants will be expected to obtain a score of at least 84% in the written evaluation and demonstrate practical proficiency.
• On successful completion of this course, HPCSA registered participants will be issued 11 CPD points: (10 regular CEUs+ 1 Ethics), a BLS provider certificate.
• Discovery members will earn 1000 Discovery Vitality miles.
• This course is valid for 2 years.

In accordance with the Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa & American Heart Association® Guidelines