The Value of BLS Certification Classes

With Basic Life Support (BLS) skills, a trained individual knows exactly what to do when working on someone facing a life and death situation due to illness or injury. The most crucial and important facet of using lifesaving measures is that each step to be followed exactly. The American Heart Association publishes each year’s guidelines, that provide proper methods of CPR and use of the AED emergency response system, and also highlights the alterations from the prior year’s publication. In addition to reading and referring...

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Child CPR Certification

According to the American Heart Association's guidelines Child CPR can be administered to any victim under the age of eight. The first thing to remember about Child CPR is that in children cardiac arrest is rarely caused by heart failure but rather by an injury such as acute poisoning, smoke inhalation, or even head trauma, which makes the breathing stop first. And since children are more resilient and flexible than adults - statistics have shown that they tend to respond to CPR much better if administered as soon as possible. If you...

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