CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer

Must have current certification.

REMINDER: In NEW YORK you are required to have your CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer updated yearly- due to public health laws.

Course Learning Objectives

            Identify the responsibilities and characteristics of professional rescuers.

  List the series of events that occur when the emergency medical services (EMS) system is                activated.

  Understand how legal considerations affect professional rescuers. 

  Recognize a life-threatening injury or illness.

  Demonstrate how to perform a primary assessment. 

  Determine when it is appropriate to call for more advanced medical personnel.

  Describe instances in which a victim should be moved. 

  Recognize and care for a breathing emergency. 

  Demonstrate how to give ventilations using a resuscitation mask (adult/child and                        infant). 

  Demonstrate how to use a bag-valve-mask resuscitator (BVM) with two rescuers.

  Demonstrate how to care for an obstructed airway (adult/child and infant).

  List the links of the Cardiac Chain of Survival.

  Recognize the signs and symptoms of a heart attack.  Identify how to care for a heart                 attack. 

  Identify special situations that may arise when performing CPR.

  Describe the role and importance of early CPR in cardiac arrest. 

  Demonstrate how to perform CPR (adult/child and infant).

  Demonstrate how to perform two-rescuer CPR (adult/child and infant).

  Describe what defibrillation is and how it works.

  Describe the role and importance of early defibrillation in cardiac arrest. 

  List the general steps for using an automated external defibrillator (AED).

  Identify precautions for using an AED.

  Demonstrate how to use an AED (adult, child or infant).

  Describe the differences in using an AED (adult, child and infant) when CPR is in                        progress.

   Decide what care to provide for breathing and cardiac emergencies