Heartsaver® CPR AED

Heartsaver® CPR AED is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches adult CPR and AED use, as well as how to relieve choking on an adult. This course teaches skills with AHA’s research-proven Practice-While-Watching (PWW) technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback and guide the students’ learning of skills.

You will learn:

  • Adult CPR and AED use
  • Adult choking
  • Child CPR and AED use (optional)
  • Infant CPR (optional)
  • Child choking (optional)
  • Infant choking (optional)

CPR instruction includes high-quality compressions, airway management, breathing, and how to use a mask.

Audience:

This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory or other requirements.

Heartsaver courses are designed for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for job, regulatory (e.g., OSHA), or other requirements. These courses can also be taken by anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting.

Features:

100% classroom training means students are with an AHA Instructor for their entire learning experience.

  • Video based course ensures consistency
  • Instructor led, hands on class format reinforces skills proficiency
  • Student manual
  • Updated Science based content

Course Content and Description:

This Instructor-led classroom course is designed to prepare students to provide CPR and use an automated external defibrillator (AED). Upon successful completion of the course, including a CPR and AED skills test, students receive a Heartsaver CPR AED course completion card (print or eCard), valid for two years.

  • Key changes reflecting the new science from the updated American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
  • Adult CPR and AED use
  • Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies
  • Child CPR and AED use
  • Infant CPR
  • Adult, child, and infant choking
  • Optional modules in child CPR and AED use and infant CPR, including child and infant choking
  • Optional written test/exam

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe how high-quality CPR improves survival
  • Explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival
  • Recognize when someone needs CPR
  • Perform high-quality CPR for an adult
  • Describe how to perform CPR with help from others
  • Give effective breaths using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
  • Demonstrate how to use an AED on an adult
  • Perform high-quality CPR for a child*
  • Demonstrate how to use an AED on a child*
  • Perform high-quality CPR for an infant*
  • Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child
  • Demonstrate how to help a choking infant*

*Child and infant modules are optional.

Course Materials:

  • Heartsaver CPR AED Student Workbook with Adult and Child/Infant Reminder Cards
    • May Be Sold Separately
    • The Heartsaver CPR AED Student Workbook/Provider Manual is for use by a single user as a student reference tool before, during, and after the course.
    • Following are the specifications for 1 Heartsaver CPR AED Student Workbook:
      • 8.375″ x 10.875″ manual
      • Saddle-stitched within a full-color soft cover
      • Includes 72 pages of full-color images and text
  • Adult CPR AED Reminder Card
    • May Be Sold Separately
    • One 2.875″ x 3.75″ 7-panel
  • Child and Infant CPR AED Reminder Card
    • May Be Sold Separately
    • One 2.875″ x 3.75″ 8-panel

Course Format/Time:

  • Classroom-based
    • Classroom-based (instructor and video, with skills conducted throughout)
    • During the course, an AHA Instructor conducts video-based lessons and works with students to complete their first aid skills practice and testing.
  • Heartsaver CPR AED Course requires approximately 3-4 hours
  • Course time based on
    • 1 instructor to 6 students to 2 manikins

Course Prerequisites:

  • Present your expired American Heart Association (AHA) Heartsaver CPR AED Provider Card to be considered a renewing provider and pay a reduced price for the course
    • We do not accept non-AHA provider cards
    • Please sign up for PDRE’s accredited Heartsaver CPR AED for Healthcare Providers course and receive the most globally recognized AHA provider card
  • Heartsaver CPR AED Provider Manual
    • A current updated Heartsaver CPR AED Provider Manual is required to attend the course
    • Purchase the updated book from PDRE for during online class enrollment or before the start of the course at our facility
    • Please bring your book if you own the most up-to-date version

Course Fee:

  • Heartsaver® CPR AED with Provider Manual: $85
  • Heartsaver® CPR AED without Provider Manual: $75

Certification:

  • During the course, an AHA Instructor conducts video-based lessons and works with students to complete their first aid skills practice and testing.
  • Successful students should be able to:
    • Recognize: when someone needs CPR and explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival
    • Describe: how high-quality CPR improves survival; how to use an AED on an infant*; when and how to help a choking adult or child
    • Perform: high-quality CPR for an adult; as a team member during multi-rescuer CPR; high-quality CPR for a child*; high-quality CPR for an infant*
    • Demonstrate: how to use an AED on an adult; how to help a choking infant*; how to use an AED on a child*; give effective breaths using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
  • Upon completion of this course, students receive an American Heart Association Heartsaver CPR AED Course Completion Card that is valid for two years.
    • Upon completion of this course, students receive an American Heart Association Heartsaver CPR AED course completion card that is valid for 2 years.
    • As of December 2017, the AHA has introduced the Heartsaver course completion card for K-12 school systems. The card signifies that an individual in the K-12 school system has successfully completed the objectives and skills evaluations in accordance with the curriculum of the AHA Heartsaver program. If you are a K-12 school, ask your Training Center about this option.

Scheduling & Discounts:

  • Register early because classroom-based courses fill-up quickly
  • Enrollment is limited
  • Course scheduling is subject to change without notice
  • Please call us if you have any questions or for discounted group rates and seasonal promotions!
  • Feel free to view our website for more information: https://www.yourcprmd.com

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Our AHA ACLS instructor, Dr. Nuqui, was very knowledgeable, experienced, supportive, and entertaining. Most of all, I really appreciated how well organized and engaging the initial provider course was conducted in a pleasant and comfortable learning environment. Not only was the training site facility brand-new but everything from the student materials, training AEDs, intubation equipment and manikins were up-to-date and in excellent condition.

William, MD

I was very impressed with how professional and enjoyable my ACLS and PALS renewal classes were at Palm Desert Resuscitation Education! As an emergency medicine registered nurse working at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, I wanted to be educated with the most commonly seen cardiac arrhythmias and their treatment but also needed classes that were attention grabbing and fun. Palm Desert Resuscitation Education instructors definitely kept my attention during the lengthy courses by having a balanced sense of humor, pertinent and brilliant instructions, and excellent case scenario discussions.

Rickey, RN

I highly recommend this training facility as your go-to CPR certification site for your healthcare job because Dr. Nuqui is not only passionate about saving lives but is awesome when it comes to teaching you the proper techniques of resuscitation including compressions, airway management, and defibrillator use. He shares his medical and teaching experiences while making you feel relaxed, stimulated, and well informed with the current AHA guidelines. He taught me exactly what I needed to know to be ready when cardiac arrest happens.

Ashley, LVN
During my Basic Life Support (BLS) class, I was given all of the necessary skills to be confident and not be afraid if ever one of my patients or family members collapses due to a heart condition, such as a heart attack. PDRE’s instructors and staff provide a very friendly, informative, humorous, interesting, and stress-free class that makes me want to personally refer all of my friends and family to do their CPR training at PDRE. Do not hesitate to try the best American Heart Association courses in the Desert Cities!
Karina, medical assistant and phlebotomist
As an elementary teacher who needed to be responsible for many students, I wanted to learn first aid basics and CPR in case I encounter a time when one of my students may either be choking, bleeding, seizes, faints, breaks a bone, sprains a muscle, becomes allergic, passes out, and experiences other first aid emergencies. Palm Desert Resuscitation Education’s first aid basics and CPR classroom course, which were held in our elementary school, was the perfect out-of-site learning setting to practice first aid basics and CPR for medical and injury emergencies. All of the staff and school employees are truly thankful and now self-assured to be able to provide possible practical first aid basics and CPR to our students, associates, friends or relatives. From my experience, Palm Desert Resuscitation Education quite honestly has the greatest, most efficient and personable instructors teaching top-of-the-line healthcare certification courses.
Gary, elementary teacher
Dr. Nuqui and his staff were truly amazing when I needed my BLS certification for my personal training business. He was very efficient and thorough with all of the course content and materials including the new guideline changes so that we are all up-to-date when it comes to performing effective CPR and step-by-step use of an AED. It was very easy to listen to him because he is not only a great instructor but is outgoing and personable. He really made the class enjoyable and easy to understand. I would definitely go back here for my BLS recertification.
Roel, personal trainer
Being a member of an exclusive golf club in the Palm Springs area, I was surprised by how much I learned in adult CPR and AED use, first aid basics, medical emergencies, injury emergencies, and environmental emergencies during an exciting and educational course held by Dr. Nuqui and other instructors in our private Club House. You never know when someone needs help, especially when we are out in the golf course, and those minutes before the first responders get to our location can be vital. Thus, those important medical techniques that Dr. Nuqui presented to us clearly could possibly save one of our participant’s lives. I now feel very comfortable that our golf club members were trained the proper way and can respond to almost any medical emergency.
Pat, General Manager
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