UEMS X0100 - AHA HeartCode Basic Life Support (BLS)
Description
This is the American Heart Association (AHA) HeartCode(R) Basic Life Support (BLS) Course skills session. HeartCode(R) BLS has two components: an online portion and an instructor-led classroom portion. You must complete the online portion first. The online portion is purchased directly from the American Heart Association here: https://shopcpr.heart.org/heartcode-bls. As of February 2026, the online portion is $37. This course can be used for initial certification or recertification.
Print & bring your online completion certificate to your skill session. If you do not have your certificate of completion, you will not be able to complete the skills practice and testing of the course.
The goal of the American Heart Association BLS course is to train participants to save the lives of people in cardiac arrest through high-quality CPR. The AHA designed the BLS Course to teach healthcare professionals how to perform high-quality CPR individually or as a part of a team. BLS skills are applicable to any healthcare setting. BLS students will learn rescue techniquest for adults, children and infants.
Please wear loose, comfortable clothing. You will be practicing skills that require working on your hands and knees, bending, standing, and lifting. If you have physical conditions that may prevent you from participating in the course, please tell one of the instructors when you arrive to class. The instructor will work to accommodate your needs within the course completion requirements. In the event that you are ill, please notify your instructor to reschedule your training.
Outline
- Introduction
- Ventilation with a Pocket Mask and a BVM
- AED practice
- One Rescuer BLS practice-Adult
- Two Rescuer BLS practice-Adult
- High-performance team resuscitation
- Child CPR practice
- Infant CPR practice
- Choking
- Skill Testing
- 1 Rescuer Adult
- 2 Rescuer Adult
- 1 Rescuer Infant
- 2 Rescuer Infant
Objectives
At the end of this BLS Course, students will be able to:
- Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
- Apply the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival
- Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
- Perform high-quality CPR for an adult, a child, and an infant
- Perform chest compressions using correct hand placement at the correct rate and depth with chest recoil
- Demonstrate effective breaths or ventilation
- Describe the importance of early use of an AED
- Demonstrate how to use an AED
- Perform as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
- Describe how to relieve a foreign-body airway obstruction for an adult, a child, and an infant
- Describe how to help someone in an opioid-associated emergency. Describe how to perform high-quality CPR on a pregnant person, including manual lateral uterine displacement during maternal cardiac arrest
- Describe the drowning Chain of Survival