- 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.
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.
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.
PALS Areas of Emphasis
- Pediatric Assessment Triangle
- Pediatric dosing
- Pediatric compression technique
- Pedi energy rates
- Equipment for pediatric CPR
- Pediatric algorithms