BLS Instructor Manual | AHA

Participants in the AHA's BLS course learn how to quickly identify a number of life-threatening events, provide effective chest compressions, administer suitable ventilations, and initiate the early use of an AED. Reflects the newest science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

Who is it for?

AHA's Basic Life Support (BLS) Course is intended for healthcare professionals and other individuals who need to know how to deliver CPR along with other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.

What is taught in this BLS course?

• High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
• AHA's Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components
• The Importance of 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

BLS Instructor Manual details:

• provides information on teaching the Instructor-led training (ILT) 
• provides necessary information on blended-learning options for the BLS Provider Course on an initial or a renewal basis.
• Updated to reflect new science in the 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR & ECC
• 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.

• 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