Class Enrollment

Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED - American Heart Association (In-Person)
Date/Time:	Sat 4/12/2025 from 11:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Location:	Caregivers Society - 4123 N. Tamiami Trail, Suite 201, Sarasota, FL 34234
Class Price:	$79.00

Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills needed to respond to and manage an emergency until emergency medical services arrives. Skills covered in this course include first aid; choking relief in adults, children, and infants; and what to do for sudden cardiac arrest in adults, children, and infants.

This course teaches skills with the AHA’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback, and guide the students’ learning of skills.

After successfully completing this course, students should be able to:

• List the priorities, roles, and responsibilities of first aid rescuers
• Describe the key steps in first aid
• Remove protective gloves
• Find the problem
• Describe the assessment and first aid actions for the following life-threatening conditions: heart attack, difficulty breathing, choking, severe bleeding, shock, and stroke
• Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child
• Demonstrate how to help a choking infant
• Use an epinephrine pen
• Control bleeding and bandaging
• Recognize elements of common injuries
• Recognize elements of common illnesses
• Describe how to find information on preventing illness and injury
• Recognize the legal questions that apply to first aid rescuers
• Describe how high-quality CPR improves survival
• Explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival
• Recognize when someone needs CPR
• Perform high-quality CPR for an adult
• Describe how to perform CPR with help from others
• Give effective breaths using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
• Demonstrate how to use an AED on an adult
• Perform high-quality CPR for a child
• Demonstrate how to use an AED on a child
• Perform high-quality CPR for an infant
• Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child
• Demonstrate how to help a choking infant

Intended Audience: The American Heart Association's (AHA) Heartsaver courses are intended for people with little to no medical training who need CPR and/or first aid training and a course completion card for job, regulatory, or other requirements. These courses can also be taken by anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting.

Time: 6 Hours

Price: $79

Completion Card: Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a course completion card the same day, valid for two years.