BLS for Healthcare Provider (CPR) – 5 hrs.

BLS for Healthcare Provider  (CPR) – 5 hrs.

[Online Registration] May 28, 2015 Location: Room 500 – School  of Health Profession Tuition: $75.00 Speakers: Dr. Heriberto Rivera, Mrs. Elba Caraballo, Mr. Edwin Cruz & Mr. Javier  Díaz

The Continuing Education and  Professional Studies Division of the School of Dental Medicine invites you to  our next BLS for Healthcare  Provider (CPR) course to be offered by  Dr. Heriberto Rivera and staff.  Dr.  Heriberto Rivera is the Associate Director of (CEAEM) Center of Advanced Study  for the Emergency Medical Personnel at the School of Health Professions,  Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico.

Course Description

The American Heart Association  designed the BLS for Healthcare Providers course to prepare a wide variety of  healthcare professionals to recognize several life-threatening emergencies and  to provide CPR, use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), and relieve choking in a  safe, timely, and effective manner. The course includes adult, child and infant  rescues skills in both the out-of-hospital and in-hospital settings.

Course  Objectives At  the end of the BLS course participant will be able to:

• Describe the steps of CPR
• Describe the signs and actions for severe airway       obstruction in the responsive and unresponsive victim.
• Describe the links in the chain of survival.
• Describe the sings of four common life       threatening emergencies in adults.
• Activating the emergency response service.

Psychomotor Objectives:

• Activating the emergency response       system.
• Giving breaths for adult, child, and       infant victims.
• Giving compressions for adults, child,       and infant victims.
• Performing 1-and-2 rescues CPRS for       adults, child, and infant victims.
• Using an AED for victim’s  >   year of age.
• Relieving choking in the responsive       and unresponsive victim of any age