• Basic Life Support
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support

Chicago BLS - AHA Basic Life Support

Not sure whether to choose a full, in-person class, or a skills session? Read our Chicago AHA BLS course guide.

Ready to sign up? Great! Visit our Chicago BLS course page.



American Heart Association BLS at Chicago Heart Training is a concise course to teach you critical actions when adult, child, and pediatric patients suffer from cardiac arrest.

The Basic Life Support course covers chest compressions, giving breaths with both a simple mask and a BVM, and choking.

With state-of-the-art equipment and courses taught by instructors experienced in providing CPR on real patients, we provide our BLS students a superior learning experience.

Chicago BLS Class
BLS Areas of Emphasis:
  • Use of simple face mask
  • Compression hand placement
  • Team dynamics
  • Defibrillation
  • Use of BVM
  • Compressions rate
  • Special considerations
  • Pediatric CPR
  • Introduction to airways
  • Compression depth
  • CPR sequence
  • 2015 Updates

Chicago ACLS - AHA Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support

Not sure whether to choose a full, in-person class, or a skills session? Read our Chicago AHA ACLS course guide.

Ready to sign up? Great! Visit our Chicago ACLS course page.



At Chicago Heart Training we have a passion for Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support. ACLS provides us with the most challenging algorithms, and we rise to the challenge.

Using RealPatient™ ECG scenarios, state-of-the-art ALS manikins, and realistic training, we teach ACLS on a whole new level. Our ACLS courses are concise yet powerful, focusing on the most imperative information for working health care professionals.

Chicago ACLS course
ACLS Areas of Emphasis
  • ETCO2
  • ROSC
  • Algorithm mastery
  • Incorporating BLS
  • Rapid ECG interpretation
  • Pharmacological competence
  • 2015 Updates
  • RealPatient cases

Chicago PALS - AHA Pediatric Advanced Life Support

Our Chicago-based AHA PALS course stresses the differences between pediatric and adult rescucitation techniques. We also provide provider students with a brief on pediatric intubation equipment and technique, and all students have the option to intubate our highly accurate pediatric airway manikin.

Chicago PALS class
PALS Areas of Emphasis
  • Pediatric Assessment Triangle
  • Pediatric dosing
  • Pediatric compression technique
  • Pedi energy rates
  • Equipment for pediatric CPR
  • Pediatric algorithms