Customized Training - CPR and First Aid

Pediatric Heartsaver First Aid CPR/AED

This course is a classroom, video-based, Instructor-led training that teaches students to respond to and manage illnesses and injuries in a child or infant in the first few minutes until professional help arrives.
This course is designed to meet the regulatory requirements for child care workers in all 50 U.S. states.
Length: 6 hours
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. (half hour lunch break included)
Day: Saturday

Results in a Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR AED Course Completion Card, valid for two years

Heartsaver Pediatric CPR Course objectives:
• Describe how high-quality CPR improves survival
• Explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival
• Recognize when someone needs CPR
• Perform high-quality CPR for and infant/child
• Describe how to perform CPR with help from others
• Give effective breaths by using mouth-to-mouth or a mask
• Demonstrate how to use an AED on an infant/child
• Describe when and how to help a choking child
• Demonstrate how to help a choking infant

Pediatric Heartsaver First Aid Course Objectives:
• List the priorities, roles, and responsibilities of first aid rescuers
• Describe the key steps in first aid
• Remove protective gloves
• Find the problem
• Describe the assessment and first aid actions for the following life-threatening conditions: heart attack, difficulty breathing, choking, severe bleeding, shock, and stroke
• Use an epinephrine pen
• Control bleeding and bandaging
• Recognize elements of common injuries
• Recognize elements of common illnesses
• Describe how to find information on preventing illness and injury
• Recognize the legal questions that apply to first aid rescuers