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Basic Life Support Made Easy (Unfortunately at this time we can not extend our services to Alaska residents)
You can learn CPR quickly and easily. Our education includes video demonstrations of Adult, Child, and Infant CPR as well as a great overview of the AED and Basic Life Support. We have a wealth of information available to those who want to increase their awareness/knowledge on this wonderful and very important topic.
Online CPR Certification
This online Healthcare Provider Renewal course is designed for the Professional Rescuers, Health Care Providers, Emergency Response Teams, Doctors, Safety Personnel, Police, Ambulance, Athletic Trainers, Airline Employees, Life Guards or anyone who has a requirement for a CPR Certification card.
This online CPR course uses the aid of video as well as a wealth of self study material to increase your awareness and knowledge of the given subject. You may also purchase additional education material as and additional resource if you would like. You will be able to view the actual sequence of using an AED or Automatic External Defibrillator as well as watch others perform CPR. After you have had time to view the education material, you will be given a short test. It is composed of 25 multiple choice questions. 84% is required for a passing grade. Once you have taken and passed the exam a providers card will be emailed to you. Please allow 7-10 business days for it’s arrival.
The benefits of online CPR training include an easy learning format where you can learn CPR at your own pace, clearly illustrated graphics and a more relaxed learning atmosphere. For decades, the American Heart Association has been offering classes for schools, hospitals, state programs, personal trainers and anyone who is required to have a CPR/AED card or would just like to learn.
Onsite CPR/AED Training
The American Heart Association has been offering onsite AED and CPR training classes for many many years. Let our highly qualified instructors train you and your staff or family in one or more of the courses we offer. Unlike other practice training, you will have more practice time and less time watching everyone else perform their CPR/AED skills.
Blended CPR certification classes use both online and in class instruction methods. With a blended CPR class you take our online class, then an instructor will give you a live demonstration and allow you to practice on a CPR manikin and use an AED. This method is preferred by many companies and schools since students have the ability to take the online class any time and then have one of our instructors come in for hands on practice which takes much less time than traditional CPR certification classes.
Our CPR certification cards are Nationally accepted by government agencies, schools, hospitals and more.
WHAT IS CPR AND WHY DO WE DO IT?
When someone goes into cardiac arrest , they are no longer breathing and their heart is no longer beating (No breathing – no pulse). When we do CPR – we become the respirator-we breath for the victim. We then compress on the heart – we become the heartbeat of the victim. We are compressing on the chest to pump the blood out of the heart and into the lungs to pick up the oxygen that we just breathed in and circulate it throughout the body. Our goal is to get the oxygen to the brain and vital organs which will buy the victim more time. We are maintaining their life until more advanced life support arrives.
BUT IF WE ARE EXHALING CARBON DIOXIDE, HOW ARE WE HELPING THE VICTIM?
The air that we breathe in contains approximately 21% oxygen (at sea level). We take a breath in and 21% oxygen comes in – but our bodies only use 5 to 6% of that oxygen and the rest is exhaled. Therefore, if we are exhaling 15 to 16% oxygen that is more than enough to maintain the life of the victim.
HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE AFTER A PERSON GOES INTO CARDIAC ARREST?
There are two different types of death – Clinical death vs. Biological Death. Clinical death begins the minute we stop breathing and our heart stops beating. If you can get to the victim within the first four minutes that is your best chance of bringing them back without brain damage. Four to six minutes is a gray area – some people will sustain brain damage and some won’t. After six to ten minutes, Biological death occurs. That means that brain cells will begin to die. Brain cells are very sensitive to lack of oxygen. Once a brain cell is gone – it is gone. Even if a person is brought back, you may have a brain damaged person. (Is that something you should worry about? NO – begin CPR immediately because you do not know whether they were out for 1 minute or 6 minutes and if it were 1 minute you wouldn’t want to waste a chance of helping them). Certain circumstances, such as a cold water drowning, may keep the victim in clinical death longer because the cold may slow the body systems down and less oxygen will be needed by the body.
SO – IF WE ARE DOING CPR FOR 10 MINUTES WE ARE WASTING OUR TIME?NO!!!!! The purpose of CPR is to buy the victim more time. If someone goes into cardiac arrest and we call 911 and immediately begin CPR, even if it takes the ambulance 10 minutes to arrive remember – we have been oxygenating them the whole time. The brain has not been without oxygen!