EMS Education, Inc. - Corporate Services

CPR & AED Training

Cardiac Arrest is the stopping of the heartbeat. Sudden cardiac arrest is when someone's heartbeat abruptly stops, unexpectedly. CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, allows you to assist the body in circulating the blood and providing oxygen through ventilations. More then 680 Americans die each day from a sudden cardiac arrest. One tool that rescuers use when performing CPR is the AED, or Automated External Defibrillator. The AED is a small, portable electronic device which reads a patient's heart rhythm and delivers defibrillating shocks if necessary.

Timely use of an AED is critical to the survival of the patient. In areas with a Public Access Defibrillation program, bystanders can provide immediate CPR and the first shocks. The survival rate for cardiac arrest patients is only 2-5% if defibrillation is provided more than 12 minutes after sudden cardiac arrest; shocks delivered within 3-5 minutes result in a survival rate as high as 74%. For those that are defibrillated within the first minute of collapse, there are reports of up to 90% survival.

This course is designed to teach CPR and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (FBAO) to all lay rescuers, particularly those who are expected to respond to emergencies in the workplace.

Participants will be able to describe the following: the links of the Chain of Survival, the steps of CPR for adult, child, and infant victims, the signs of 4 major emergencies in adults, strategies to prevent sudden infant death syndrome and injuries in children.

At the end of this course the participant will be able to demonstrate the following skills using an adult, child, or infant manikin and a telephone: phone 911, rescue breathing using mouth-to-mouth ventilation and mouth-to-barrier device, 1-rescuer CPR, relief of a FBAO (foreign body airway obstruction) in a responsive victim and proper use of an AED.

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