Basic Life Support Training-Scranton

Tuesday, Sept. 8
6-9:30 p.m.

Location:
The Wright Center for Community Health Scranton Auditorium
501 South Washington Avenue, Scranton

The Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Course is designed for healthcare providers and professionals who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.

In this course, participants will learn:
*The chain of survival and applying BLS concepts
*Performing high-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
*Utilizing an AED (automated external defibrillator)
*Relieving choking in responsive and unresponsive adults, children, and infants
*Effective ventilations using a barrier device
*The roles of each BLS provider in multi-rescuer scenarios
*Cardiac arrest systems of care

Upon successful completion of skills testing and a written exam, participants will receive a BLS Provider card from the American Heart Association.

Please visit https://thewrightcenter.org/aha-events/ to register and for more information.

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