BASIC LIFE SUPPORT PROVIDER (BLS) and ADVANCED CARDIOVASCULAR LIFE SUPPORT (ACLS) CERTIFICATION COMBINATION

The ACLS course builds on the foundation of lifesaving Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR. This advanced course highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care, and immediate post-cardiac arrest care. ACLS also covers airway management and related pharmacology.
Skills are taught in large-group sessions and small-group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented.

MANDATORY PRECOURSE MATERIAL (Approx. 3-5 hours)
The ACLS course has changed for the better. You can now watch the classroom videos online. This is a magnificent change; even those not yet up for renewal can update by watching the videos and gaining new information before Renewal or Initial class. Directions will be given in your registration email.

The ACLS course covers:

• ACLS algorithms
• immediate post-cardiac-arrest care
• airway management
• rhythm recognition
• high-quality CPR
• 1-rescuer CPR AED
• effective resuscitation team dynamics
• science overview (update course)
• BLS and ACLS surveys
• ACS
• Megacode treatment
• identification and initial care of other life-threatening clinical situations (such as stroke).

COST 

$299