Upstate NY Life Support Training
 

Course Information

 

BLS for the Healthcare Provider

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Heartsaver CPR

Course Description:

The Heartsaver CPR Course is a modular course that teaches lay rescuers how to recognize and treat life-threatening emergencies, including cardiac arrest and choking for adult, child and infant victims.

Heartsaver CPR for All Ages:

This course teaches CPR and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction in the adult, infant and child.

Course Length: 4 hours

Intended Audience:

All lay rescuers, such as employees in the workplace, day care employees, babysitters, firefighters, police, airline personnel, security guards, family members of patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death, other lay rescuers, and those who may have a need to respond to an emergency.

Student Materials: Heartsaver CPR Text, Required

Card Type: Course completion card

Skills Exam: Required for completion card

* Class subject to cancellation for lack of sufficient enrollment.


Heartsaver First Aid Course

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Course Description:

The Heartsaver First Aid Course provides the skills to effectively assess and maintain life from the critical minutes immediately following an emergency until the arrival of emergency medical services personnel. The course also provides corporations with a complete health and safety training solution for First Aid, CPR and AED.

The Heartsaver First Aid Course has been developed using the same evidence-based process as all American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care courses.

The Heartsaver First Aid Course teaches rescuers to effectively recognize and treat adult emergencies in the critical first minutes until emergency medical services personnel arrive. The course also provides a complete health and safety training solution for first aid, adult CPR and AED.

Course Length: 4 hours

Intended Audience:

Persons assigned to respond to emergencies in the workplace or community as well as those who want to learn first aid, CPR and AED skills. Some rescuers are required to take this course as part of their employer's efforts to comply with OSHA regulations, e.g., corporate employees, security guards, airline personnel, lifeguards and other individuals who want or need first aid training.

Student Materials: Heartsaver First Aid or Heartsaver First Aid with CPR and AED

Card Type: Course completion card

Skills Exam: Required for completion card

* Class subject to cancellation for lack of sufficient enrollment.


Heartsaver AED

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Course Description:

The Heartsaver AED Course teaches the basic techniques of adult CPR and how to use an AED. Students also learn about using barrier devices in CPR and giving first aid for choking.

Course Length: 3 hours

Intended Audience:

Responders such as police, airline personnel, security personnel, corporate employees, family members of patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death, other rescuers, and those who need or want to learn CPR and how to operate an AED.

Student Materials: Heartsaver AED Text

Card Type: Course completion

Skills Exam: Required for completion card

* Class subject to cancellation for lack of sufficient enrollment.

Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) PHTLS Logo

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Course Description:

What does PHTLS cover?

PHTLS picks up where initial EMS educational

programs leave off. The course focuses on trauma

patients in the prehospital environment-

how to identify, manage, and transport them

with the highest level of care giving them the

greatest chance of survival.

Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) is recognized around the world as the leading continuing education program for prehospital emergency trauma care.

PHTLS promotes excellence in trauma patient management through global education of all providers involved in the delivery of prehospital care.  PHTLS is developed by the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians in cooperation with the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.

Intended Audience:

All levels of Emergency Medical Service providers and those who may be faced with the initial management of a critically injured trauma patient.

Student Materials: PHTLS, 6th Ed.

Card Type: Certification (4 Years)

Exam: Written & Skills Exam

Course Medical Director:  Dr. Mark Gestring, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Emergency Medicine; University of Rochester Medical Center

 


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