Description
The American Heart Association requires every learner to have a Provider Manual. This is a mandate from the AHA not CompleteCPR or Prime Time Healthcare.
This manual is designed for healthcare providers and trained first responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of settings or by those in a healthcare training program.
- Updated to reflect new science in the 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR & ECC.
- Includes 2020 AHA BLS Reference Card.
- Teaches healthcare professionals how to perform high-quality CPR individually or as part of a team.
- Designed for a single user, this text is ideal for use as a reference tool before and after the BLS Course.
- Designed for healthcare providers who must have a card documenting successful completion of a CPR course.
Content:
- Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
- Describe all of the steps of the Chain of Survival and apply the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival
- Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
- Perform high-quality CPR for adults, children and infants
- Describe the importance of early use of an AED and demonstrate its use
- Provide effective ventilations by using a barrier device
- Describe the importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation and perform as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
- Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants