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Basic Life Support (BLS)
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Wed 3/19/2025 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
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| Location:
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Lofton Medical Services - Lafayette Office (325 E. Verot School Rd., Lafayette, LA 70508)
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| Class Price:
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$75.00
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THIS COURSE IS THE IN-PERSON TRAINING FOR BLS (INITIAL OR RENEWAL)
The Basic Life Support (BLS) course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. It reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).
Who should take this course?
The AHA’s BLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel 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. Important skills learned in the course are:
- High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
- The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components
- Important early use of an AED
- Effective ventilations using a barrier device
- Importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
- Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants
You are required to have the current provider manual (book) for this course. If you have access to one before, during, and after the class, you do not need to purchase one here. Please choose from the following optional items:
337-269-0500
