SHA BASIC LIFE SUPPORT PROVIDER (BLS) COURSE

Course Language: English The attendee of this course will learn how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-hospital facili..

Course Guidline:

• BLS Course starts from 8 AM until 12 PM ( Ramadan Timing will be different )
• Participant must arrive 15 Min before course timing.
• Participant order will be confirmed within 24H and you will receive only order confirmation notifiction first.
• Participant then will receive an access for the course "Ebook" in their emails.
• Participant will receive a reminder a day before the course with the final attending details ( Location, Timing..etc).

Course overview

The Goal of the Saudi Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers course (SHA BLS) is to ensure that all public safety professionals and healthcare providers have the essential and adequate knowledge and skills to respond to victims who are experiencing respiratory, cardiac arrest and choking.

This includes providing high-quality care integrating cognitive and psychomotor skills with the skills of critical thinking, problem solving and team dynamics to improve chance of survival. 

Course Objectives

This manual aims to provide the target participants the knowledge and skills as following:

• Recognize the importance of Basic life support training.
• Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on chain of survival either in hospital or out of hospital cardiac arrest.

• Overview of anatomy and physiology of cardiopulmonary system.
• Recognize the signs of cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest and choking.
• How to Perform high-quality CPR for adults, children and infants.
• Recognize the differences of CPR skills between single or multiple rescuers for adults,

children and infants.

• Describe the importance of early use of an AED and how to operate it.
• Describe the components of resuscitation team (members, roles and responsibilities and team dynamics).

• Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants.

Course Description

To help you achieve these objectives, the Saudi BLS Provider Course includes

• Pre-course Textbook.
• Didactic lectures.
• Skills station.

Target Audience: All Health Care Providers.