AHA ACLS Renewal

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Update/Renewal Course also know as ALS is a classroom course for healthcare providers that teaches scenario based guidelines for the treatment of various cardiac and respiratory emergencies. This course teaches a shortened version of the American Heart Association ACLS Provider Class.

Students will take a pretest before coming to class to test their knowledge of the course and what should be studied. Then students will watch all the classroom videos and take notes. All AHA Courses are now open book, open resource.

This course covers:

Adult High Quality Basic Life Support Skills: How to perform effective chest compressions, use a bag-mask device, and use an automated external defibrillator (AED)

Cardiac arrest: How to recognize and manage cardiac arrest, including high-quality CPR techniques and advanced airway management

Resuscitation Algorithms

Emergency Cardiovascular Pharmacology

Airway Management

Defibrillation and Cardioversion

Cardiac rhythms: How to recognize and treat various cardiac rhythms, such as Ventricular Fibrillation, Pulseless Ventricular Tachycardia, Asystole, Bradycardia, Tachycardia and Pulseless Electrical Activity

Other cardiovascular emergencies: How to manage other cardiovascular emergencies, such as acute coronary syndromes (ACS), stroke, and post-cardiac arrest care

Other skills: How to interpret a patient's heart rhythm with an electrocardiogram, and how to communicate effectively as a member of a resuscitation team

ACLS classes also cover critical thinking, problem-solving, and psychomotor skills practice. Some classes are instructor-led and hands-on to help reinforce skills.

ACLS certification can help you stand out in the job market and boost your confidence when dealing with emergencies.

This classroom recertification course will update an ACLS Provider's current ACLS Card, valid for an additional two years.

The Precourse Self-Assessment and Precourse Work can be found here: https://elearning.heart.org/course/424

At the end of this class students will lead the team in a respiratory case scenario and a megacode scenario as well as a 50 question open book test.