Courses offered at Medic One CPR
All courses and instructors are American Heart Association Certified.
HeartSaver
The HeartSaver CPR course is designed to teach middle and high school students the lifesaving skills of CPR and how to relieve choking.
- Learn with a manikin to administrate CPR to a victim.
- Group participation to develop skills.
- Identification of the symptoms of choking and how to dislodging techniques.
- Learn the early signs of respiratory and cardiac arrest.
- Identification of the signs and symptoms of stroke.
- Identification of risk factors.
- Course meets the minimum requirements for adult, child and infant CPR with American Heart Association certification.
HeartSaver CPR and AED
Every year 250,000 adult Americans die from cardiac arrest. When you recognize an emergency the first three links in the chain of survival are in your hands. Remember, the third link in the chain of survival is early defibrillation.
The HeartSaver CPR and AED course is designed to teach students the lifesaving skills of CPR, how to relieve choking, and how to use an AED (automated external defibrillator). A HeartSaver trained in both CPR and use of an AED, you can increase the chances of survival for a victim of cardiac arrest. You may help save a life.
- As a HeartSaver trained in both CPR and use of an AED, you can increase the chances of survival for a victim of cardiac arrest. You may help save a life.
- The most frequent cause of cardiac arrest is the sudden onset of the deadly rhythm, ventricular fibrillation (VF).
- You can keep the heart and brain alive by performing CPR while you wait for the AED to arrive.
- The only effective treatment for VF is electric defibrillation with a defibrillator.
- The sooner you perform defibrillation, the greater the chance that defibrillation will work.
- The HeartSaver AED Course enables you to perform the life-saving skills of CPR and use of an AED for victims of cardiac arrest.
- The HeartSaver AED Course now teaches technique for shocking children from 1 to 8 years of age.
- Course length is 3-4 hours and student must successfully pass a skills evaluation on a manikin and AED.
CPR for family and friends
The Family & Friends CPR program contains information on how to perform the basic skills of CPR in adults, children and infants and how to help an adult, child or infant who is choking.
Would you know what to do if an infant in your care suddenly began to choke or suffer cardiac arrest? You would want to be armed with the skills to save that precious new life. You can learn those life saving techniques in this class.
- Learn hands-on with a manikin.
- Group participation to develop skills.
- Identification of the signs and symptoms of airway obstruction including dislodging techniques
- Recognition of the early warning signals of respiratory and cardiac arrest.
- Identification of the signs and symptoms of stroke.
HeartSaver Pediatric CPR and First Aid
HeartSaver Pediatric First Aid Course preparespeople to provide CPR, First Aid and an AED in a safe, timely, and effective manner. The course goals include cognitive and psychomotor objectives. This course is for people with limited or no medical training who need a credential in Pediatric First Aid. Anyone needing or desiring a Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid Course completion card can take this course.
Learn hands-on with a manikin to administer CPR to one adult, child, and infant.
Recognition of pediatric emergency situations.
Use of an AED for victims >1 year of age.
Learn of the causes of cardiopulmonary arrest in children and infants ranging from choking, suffocation and drowning to traumatic injuries.
Course meets the requirements for Pediatric First Aid with CPR
BLS Healthcare Provider
This course is designed to teach the skills of CPR for victims of all ages, use of an automated external defibrillator and relief of choking. It is intended for participants who provide heath care to patients in a wide variety of settings.
At the end of the BLS for Healthcare Providers Course students will be able to:
- Describe the steps of CPR.
- When to start CPR.
- When to give breaths, including with barrier devices.
- When to check a pulse.
- How to give compressions at the proper depth and rate and with complete chest recoil.
- When to use an AED.
- Describe the signs and actions for severe airway obstruction in the responsive and unresponsive victim.
- Describe the links of the Chain of Survival.
- Activating the appropriate emergency response system.
- Performing CPR.
- Providing early defibrillation.
- Ensuring the arrival of early advanced care by activating 9-1-1.
- Describe the signs of 4 common life-threatening emergencies in adults.
- Cardiac arrest.
- Choking.
- Stroke.
- Heart attack.
First Aid for friends and family
Designed for family members, including siblings, grandparents, new parents, and friends who care for children and infants and want to know first aid basics.
The HeartSaver First Aid Course is designed to prepare people to provide First Aid in a safe, timely, and effective manner. The course goals include cognitive and psychomotor objectives. This course is for people with limited or no medical training who need a credential in First Aid. Anyone needing or desiring a HeartSaver First Aid Course completion card can take this course.
- Review the first aid steps for medical emergencies.
- Breathing problems, chest pain & heart attack, fainting, diabetes, stroke, & seizures.
- Heimlich maneuver.
- Review the first aid steps for injury emergencies.
- Bleeding, mouth injuries, shock, broken bones, sprains & bruises, burns & electrocution.
- Review the first aid steps for environmental emergencies.
- Bites & stings, temperature-related emergencies & poison emergencies.
- Administration of an epinephrine pen.
- Course meets the requirements for Basic First Aid, certification valid for two years
- Course length is approximately 3-4 hours with a written review exam.