Description
2020 AHA BLS provider manual is designed for healthcare providers and trained first responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of settings or by those in a healthcare training program.
- Updated to reflect new science in the 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR & ECC
- Includes 2020 AHA BLS Reference Card (Product #20-1132)
- Teaches healthcare professionals how to perform high-quality CPR individually or as part of a team.
- Designed for a single user, this text is ideal for use as a reference tool before and after the BLS Course.
- 2020 AHA BLS provider manual is designed for healthcare providers who must have a card documenting successful completion of a CPR course
Course content:
- Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
- Describe all of the steps of the Chain of Survival and also apply the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival
- Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
- Perform high-quality CPR for adults, children and also infants
- Describe the importance of early use of an AED and demonstrate its use
- Provide effective ventilations by using a barrier device
- Describe the importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation and perform as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
- Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and also infants
