BLS Provider Student Manual (2020 Guidelines)

This course is designed for healthcare providers and trained first responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of settings or by those in a healthcare training program.

• Updated to reflect new science in the 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR & ECC
• Teaches healthcare professionals how to perform high-quality CPR individually or as part of a team.
• Designed for a single user, this text is ideal for use as a reference tool before and after the BLS Course.
• Designed for healthcare providers who must have a card documenting successful completion of a CPR course

• Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
• Describe all of the steps of the Chain of Survival and apply the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival
• Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
• Perform high-quality CPR for adults, children and infants
• Describe the importance of early use of an AED and demonstrate its use
• Provide effective ventilations by using a barrier device
• Describe the importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation and perform as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
• Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants