Class Schedule

Emergency Medical Training offers BLS Provider Courses (New & Renewal) as well as HeartSaver CPR/AED, HeartSaver First Aid, HeartSaver Pediatric CPR/AED with First Aid, ACLS and PALS classes in Reading, PA. 

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This is a 2 day course (8 hours each day) that teaches the provider the following course content:

  • Airway management
  • Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device and use of an AED
  • Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team
  • Effective Resuscitation Team Dynamics
  • Key changes in advanced cardiovascular life support, reflecting the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
  • Management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and stroke
  • Recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia
  • Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest
  • Related pharmacology

Note: You do not need to purchase a student manual when registering for this course. However you must have a student manual on the day of the course.

Enjoy teaching? Learn to train others to perform American Heart Association CPR.

Learn how to teach American Heart Association CPR to others. This course is designed to educate candidates for CPR Instructor Certification.

Applicants must demonstrate proficiency in all BLS skills. Applicants will be prescreened for participation and following completion of the course, instructor candidates must be monitored when teaching in their first BLS course.

All course fees must be paid in full before books or materials are released. After registering for the cousre, we will order your course materials. When 

The BLS instructor manual and core course material can be picked up in the Continuing Education office no less than one week prior to start of class and proof of completion turned in at time of class. All course fees must be paid in full before books or materials are released.

Those that successfully complete this course and receive BLS/HCP cards as a result of this training, are reminded that they must renew their cards every two years.

A current CPR card is required to take this course.


 

The AHA’s BLS Provider Course reflects science and education from the 2015 Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC. It teaches both single-rescuer and team basic life support skills for application in both prehospital and in-facility environments, with a focus on high-quality CPR and team dynamics.

In the Instructor-led course, students participate in simulated clinical scenarios and learning stations. Students work with an AHA BLS Instructor to complete BLS skills practice and skills testing. Students also complete a written exam.

The BLS for Healthcare Providers Online Course teaches CPR skills for helping victims of all ages, including providing ventilation with a barrier device, a bag-mask device with oxygen, and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED); and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction. Intended for licensed and non-licensed healthcare professionals.  The course completion card for the online course is identical to the card for the classroom course.

There are THREE parts to the BLS Blended Online course:

  1. Part 1 at your home or office: Online simulation and written test completion (0.5 to 2 hours)
  2. Part 2 and 3 at one of our regularly scheduled classes: Manikin practice and skills testing (approximately 1-hr)

Upon completion, the participant should print their Certificate of Completion and bring it with them to give their instructor. The completion certificate must say HeartCode BLS. Students can purchase the HeartCode BLS Part 1, by Clicking Here

Please note that only 2020 AHA HeartCode Certificates will be accepted. 

Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR AED Online Part 1 teaches child care providers and others to respond to and manage illnesses and injuries in a child or infant in the first few minutes until professional help arrives. It covers the Four Steps of First Aid and pediatric first aid skills such as finding the problem, stopping bleeding, bandaging and using an Epinephrine pen, as well as child CPR AED and infant CPR. Optional modules in adult CPR AED, child mask, infant mask and Asthma Care Training for Child Care Providers are also available.

This classroom course teaches basic CPR skills such as performing a head tilt-chin lift and giving compressions and breaths. The course provides training for anyone who wants to learn basic CPR and obtain a Heartsaver course completion card. This is a 3 hour course.

  • Adult CPR and AED use
  • Key changes reflecting the new science from the 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
  • Modules in child CPR and AED use and infant CPR, including child and infant choking

Heartsaver courses are designed for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for job, regulatory (for example, OSHA), or other requirements. These courses can also be taken by anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting. For many Heartsaver courses, students receive a course completion card that is valid for 2 years.