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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JAMM CPR CLASSES: HELD IN THE NJ/DE AREA

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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.

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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 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 AHA HeartCode Certificates will be accepted. 

This course from the American Heart Association has been updated to reflect new science based on the 2010 AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC.

Heartsaver First Aid Online is a self-directed course that uses interactive lessons and videos to teach you comprehensive first aid knowledge. This program is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs an AHA course completion card. You will learn:

  • First aid basics
  • Medical emergencies
  • Injury emergencies
  • Environmental emergencies

First Aid instruction includes bandaging, bleeding, wounds, choking, shock, seizure, fainting, broken bones, sprains, burns, bites, stings, poison, and temperature-related conditions, to name a few.

Once you begin the course, you’ll have access to the online lessons, videos, manuals and resources for 2 years! And you can start and stop the course at your convenience until you have finished it at your own pace.

Successful completion of the full Heartsaver First Aid Course includes three (3) parts:

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  • Part 1, Heartsaver First Aid online course
  • Part 2, a hands-on skills practice session with an authorized AHA Heartsaver Instructor within 60 days
  • Part 3, a hands-on skills test with an authorized AHA Heartsaver Instructor within 60 days

After you successfully complete all 3 parts, you will receive an AHA Heartsaver First Aid course completion card, valid for two years. 

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.

Heartsaver  First Aid CPR AED is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills needed to respond to and manage a first aid, choking or sudden cardiac arrest emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services (EMS) arrives. 

Students learn skills such as how to treat bleeding, sprains, broken bones, shock and other first aid emergencies.  This course also teaches adult CPR and AED use. This course is a 4 hour course.

  • Key changes reflecting the new science from the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
  • Adult CPR and AED use
  • Environmental emergencies
  • First aid basics
  • Injury emergencies
  • Key changes reflecting the new science from the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
  • Medical emergencies
  • Modules in child CPR and AED use and infant CPR