Basic Life Support (BLS)

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Basic Life Support (BLS)

Q: What are the best free online basic life support courses?

Alison offers a range of online courses for free. The Basic Life Support (BLS) course will provide you with lifesaving skills to respond promptly in emergency situations. Topics include administering CPR to both adults and children and how to operate an AED machine.

Q: What do you learn in basic life support?

The Basic Life Support (BLS) course focuses on basic BLS concepts such as CPR and AED machine operation. The course looks at BLS for both adults and children individually and how the administration of CPR differs.

Q: What are the 4 elements of a basic life support course?

The Basic Life Support (BLS) course examines specific topics such as CPR, AED operation, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and administering BLS to children.The course covers how to check for responsiveness, use automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and how open the patient’s airways if they’re struggling to breathe.

Q: What is the CPR ratio?

The Basic Life Support (BLS) course explains that the CPR ratio is 30 chest compressions to 2 mouth-to-mouth breaths. The course describes how to correctly administer CPR and incorporate the use of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Learn how to save someone’s life in a crisis with this free online certificate course on basic life support (BLS).

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In this free course, you will learn how to:

Describe the details of the 2020-2025 guideline changes in basic life support
Discuss how to perform adult mouth-to-mask ventilation
Outline ‘bag-mask’ ventilation in two-rescuer CPR for adults
Outline the steps of performing CPR on children
Explain the one-rescuer and the two-rescuer BLS for infants between 0 to 12 months old
Identify the AED steps for children and infants
Paraphrase the adult ‘chain of survival’ and its pediatric counterpart
Distinguish between one-rescuer and the two-rescuer BLS for children
Illustrate how to open a child’s airway
Explain how to deliver mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing
Explain how to perform mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing on adults and older children
Explain how to perform mouth-to-mouth and nose-rescue breathing for infants

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