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 health care 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 and 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
