Basic Life Support (BLS)

Course Description and Goal
The Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Course is to train participants to save lives of victims in
cardiac arrest through high-quality CPR. The AHA designed the BLS course to teach
healthcare professionals and the general public how to perform high-quality CPR individually or
as a part of a team. BLS skills are applicable to any healthcare setting. BLS students will learn
rescue techniques for adults, children, and infants.
The goal of this course is to improve outcomes for adult patients of cardiopulmonary arrest and
other cardiovascular emergencies through early recognition and interventions by an individual or
high-performance teams.

Course Objectives
● Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
● Describe all the steps of the Chain of Survival
● Apply the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival
● Recognize when someone needs CPR
● Perform high-quality CPR for an adult, a child and an infant
● Describe the importance of early use of an AED
● Demonstrate the appropriate use of an AED
● Provide effective ventilation by using a barrier device
● Describe the importance of teams in multi rescuer resuscitation
● Perform as an effective team member during multi rescuer CPR
● Describe how to relieve foreign-body airway obstruction for an adult, child, and an infant

Topics

● High quality Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
● Automated External Defibrillator (AEDs)
● Rescue breathing
● Foreign body obstruction
● Teamwork
● Scene safety