Basic Life Support
Overview
Basic Life Support (BLS) comprises of a series of vital skills to save the lives of victims in cardiac arrest. The American heart Association has designed this course to train healthcare professionals with an emphasize on high quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation to increase the victim’s survival chance until emergency medical help arrives. The aim of this training is to provide participants with knowledge, skills and confidence to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation individually and as a part of the team
- Time Duration : 8 hrs
- Number of Participants : 8
- Describe the importance of high-quality CPR & its impact on survival
- Discuss and apply the steps of Chain of Survival
- Perform high-quality CPR in adults, children and infants
- Demonstrate the appropriate use of an AED
- Demonstrate different ventilation techniques
- Describe the importance of working in teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation
- Describe how to relieve foreign-body airway obstruction in adults, children and infants
- Multimedia audio visual aids
- High fidelity manikins
- Various assessment tools
- Handouts
- Practice session on task trainer
- Demonstration on high-fidelity manikins
- Simulation based clinical scenarios
- Practice session in a simulated environment
- Knowledge and skill assessment
