Course Description

The Heartsaver CPR course is a modular course that teaches lay rescuers how to recognize and treat life-threatening emergencies, including cardiac arrest and choking for adult, child, and infant victims. Students also learn to recognize the warning signs of heart attack and stroke in adults and breathing difficulties in children. The program is divided into a choice of three different courses.
Heartsaver CPR for All Ages -- teaches CPR and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction in the adult, the infant, and the child
Heartsaver CPR for Adults -- teaches CPR and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for the adult.

Heartsaver CPR for Infants and Children -- teaches CPR and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for infants (birth to 1 year of age) and children (1 year to 8 years of age).
 

Intended Audience:
All lay rescuers, such as employees in the workplace, day-care employees, baby-sitters, firefighters, police, airline personnel, security guards, family members of patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death, other lay rescuers, and those who may have a need to respond to an emergency.