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CPR/AED--Adult
Course Fee: $45.00
Purpose: Train lay responders to overcome any reluctance to act in emergency situations and to recognize and care for life-threatening respiratory or cardiac emergencies in adults.
Prerequisites: NONE
Learning Objectives:
-Describe how to recognize and respond to an emergency.
-Describe the purpose of the Good Samaritan Laws.
-Describe the difference between consent and implied consent
-Describe the three emergency action steps.
-Identify when and how to call 9-1-1 or the local emergency number.
-Explain when and how to move a person from a dangerous scene.
-Identify how to minimize the risk of disease transmission when giving care.
-Demonstrate how to minimize the risk of disease transmission when giving care.
-Demonstrate how to check an unconscious person for life-threatening and nonlife-threatening conditions.
-Demonstrate how to check a conscious person for life-threatening and nonlife-threatening conditions.
-Identify the signals of shock and describe how to minimize its effects.
-Recognize the signals of a breathing emergency.
-Demonstrate how to care for a person who is choking.
-Demonstrate how to recognize and care for a person who is not breathing.
-Recognize the signals of a cardiac emergency.
-Identify the links in the Cardiac Chain of Survival.
-Describe how to care for a heart attack.
-Demonstrate how to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
-Identify prevention strategies to decrease the risk of breathing emergencies.
-Explain what defibrillation is and how it works.
-Explain the role of CPR in cardiac arrest.
-Identify the general steps for the use of an automatice external defibrillator (AED).
-Identify precautions when using an AED.
-Demonstrate how to use an AED.
Length: Approx. 4 hrs and 30 mins.
Instructor: A currently authorized American Red Cross Lay Responder First Aid and CPR/AED, Emergency Response, Lifeguarding or CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer program who has met state qualifications, where required.
Certification Requirements:
-Attend and participate in all course sessions.
-Demonstrate competency in all required skills listed on the skills checklist.
-Participate in all skills sessions.
-Pass each section of the written exam with a score of 80 percent or better.
Certificate Issued and Validity Period: CPR/AED--Adult: 1 year.
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