AHA BLS Instructor Manual

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RECENTLY UPDATED!

The New Instructor Manual has been updated to reflect new science and guidelines for CPR and ECC. This video-based, instructor-led course teaches single rescuer and team basic life support skills for in-facility and prehospital settings.

The 2015 AHA BLS Instructor Manual Includes:

• 64 Pages
• 40 lesson plans for instructor-led course and 40 lesson plans for blended learning course
• 6 divider page tabs
• BLS Instructor CD

Supplemental Information and tools on BLS Instructor CD

• Equipment list
• Sample Precourse Letter to Students (Classroom Course)
• Sample Precourse Letter to Students (HeartCode BLS)
• Sample BLS Course Agenda
• Sample HeartCode BLS Agenda

Course Materials:

• Adult CPR and AED Skills Testing Checklist
• Skills Testing Critical Skills Descriptors
• Infant CPR Skills Testing Checklist
• Skills Testing Critical Skills Descriptors
• Team Dynamics Diagram
• Summary of High Quality CPR Components for BLS Providers
• BLS Lesson Plans
• Blended BLD Lesson Plans
• Life Is Why Activity Page

Course Content:

1. Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
2. Describe all the steps of the Chain of Survival
3. Apply the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival
4. Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
5. Perform high-quality CPR for adults, children and infants
6. Describe the importance of early use of an AED and demonstrate its use
7. Provide effective ventilations by using a barrier device
8. Describe the importance of teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation and perform as a effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR
9. Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants.