Class Enrollment

CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers
Date/Time:	Call to schedule
Location:	Call to schedule
Class Price:	$115.00

Purpose

The purpose of the American Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers course is

to train professional-level rescuers to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies in

adults, children and infants until more advanced medical personnel take over. This

program is offered in both traditional instructor-led and blended learning delivery types.

Prerequisites

None

Learning Objectives

▪ Identify the responsibilities and characteristics of professional rescuers.

▪ List the series of events that occur when the emergency medical services (EMS)

system is activated.

▪ Understand how legal considerations affect professional rescuers.

▪ Recognize a life-threatening injury or illness.

▪ Demonstrate how to perform a primary assessment.

▪ Determine when it is appropriate to call for more advanced medical personnel.

▪ Describe instances in which a victim should be moved.

▪ Recognize and care for a breathing emergency.

▪ Demonstrate how to give ventilations using a resuscitation mask (adult/child and

infant).

▪ Demonstrate how to use a bag-valve-mask resuscitator (BVM) with two rescuers.

▪ Demonstrate how to care for an obstructed airway (adult/child and infant).

▪ List the links of the Cardiac Chain of Survival.

▪ Recognize the signs and symptoms of a heart attack.

▪ Identify how to care for a heart attack.

▪ Identify special situations that may arise when performing CPR.

▪ Describe the role and importance of early CPR in cardiac arrest.

▪ Demonstrate how to perform CPR (adult/child and infant).

▪ Demonstrate how to perform two-rescuer CPR (adult/child and infant).

▪ Describe what defibrillation is and how it works.

▪ Describe the role and importance of early defibrillation in cardiac arrest.

▪ List the general steps for using an automated external defibrillator (AED).

▪ Identify precautions for using an AED.

▪ Demonstrate how to use an AED (adult, child or infant).

▪ Describe the differences in using an AED (adult, child and infant) when CPR is in

progress.

▪ Decide what care to provide for breathing and cardiac emergencies.

Length

▪ Instructor-Led: 6 hours

▪ Blended Learning: 2 hours of eLearning followed by a 4 hour in-person skill

session.

Certification Requirements

Participants must:

▪ Attend the entire course.

▪ Participate in all skill sessions and scenarios.

▪ Demonstrate competency in all required skills and scenarios.

▪ Pass the final written exam with a minimum grade of 80 percent.

▪ Blended Learning only: complete all eLearning modules prior to the first in-

person skill session.

Certificate Issues and Validity Period

CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers, valid 2 years

Participant Products

CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers Handbook (available in digital and print formats)