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A BLS course in Vancouver for healthcare professionals with a duty to respond to perform high-quality CPR in a team environment.

Vancouver Basic Life Support

Vancouver Basic Life Support

A BLS course in Vancouver for healthcare professionals with a duty to respond to perform high-quality CPR in a team environment.

Our Canadian Red Cross Basic Life Support (BLS) course in Vancouver is designed to provide training to pre-hospital and in-facility responders, equipping them with the skills to recognize and take action when they encounter patients experiencing cardiac arrest or respiratory arrest. The BLS curriculum is tailored to support the delivery of high-performance, team-based professional resuscitation, emphasizing the importance of effective collaboration among responders.

Key points about the Vancouver Canadian Red Cross BLS course:

  1. Industry Focus: This course is industry-driven, meaning it is specifically structured to meet the needs and standards of professionals who may encounter cardiac and respiratory emergencies in their line of work. It is not intended for basic layperson CPR training.

  2. Team-Based Approach: The course places a strong emphasis on team-based resuscitation, recognizing that many emergency situations require coordinated efforts from multidisciplinary teams with varying levels of experience.

  3. Comprehensive Coverage: BLS training within this program encompasses a wide range of scenarios, including emergencies involving adults, children, infants, and neonates. Responders are prepared to address a variety of situations they may encounter in their professional roles.

  4. Certification: Successful completion of the BLS course leads to certification that aligns with industry standards. It's important to note that this certification is typically valid for one year, and professionals are encouraged to undergo regular re-certification to maintain their proficiency.

Our Canadian Red Cross BLS course is a robust and industry-focused resuscitation training program. It is intended for professionals who may be required to respond to cardiac and respiratory emergencies as part of their job responsibilities. By completing this course, participants gain the knowledge and skills needed to provide high-quality CPR and intervention in a team environment, ultimately contributing to better outcomes in emergency situations.

Full Course Length 4 hours - $69.00 Register Now
Recertification 2.5 - 4 hours - $55.00 Register Now

Course Details

Vancouver Basic Life Support includes

  • Introduction to Basic Life Support for healthcare providers 
  • Duty of Care for first responders
  • Primary Assessment
  • Secondary Survey 
  • Steps to preform rapid Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
  • Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
  • Airway Obstruction Conscious Adult, Children, Infant
  • Assisted Ventilation
  • Spinal injury considerations for healthcare providers 
  • 6 R's of Medications
  • BLS skills assessed; 
  • Rolling patient for face down to face up
  • Recovery Position 
  • Head Tilt Chin Lift and Pulse Check 
  • Jaw thrust with Pulse Check 
  • Use of Bag Valve Mask and CPR mask 
  • Assisted Ventilations 
  • Tongue Jaw Lift and Mouth Sweep 
  • Team CPR for Adult, Children, Infant and Neonate 
  • One and Two responder ratio's for CPR 
  • Donning and Doffing PPE

FAQs

IS BLS and HCP the same?

BLS used to exist alongside CPR HCP (Health Care Provider) for many years. Since then,CPR HCP has essentially been deprecated (scrapped) in favour of widespread adoption of BLS as a national standard for CPR among healthcare providers. While CPR HCP essentially taught lay rescuer CPR skills and added some additional topics geared toward professional healthcare workers, in a BLS course the time is spent practicing skills from the professional responder context from beginning to end. The goal of BLS is to become not just familiar, but proficient at performing CPR skills as a 2 person team with others certified in BLS. Since this is a national standard the hope is that widespread adoption of BLS will improve the efficiency and interoperability of healthcare teams the survival rate for patients who are in healthcare contexts where Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support may not be available.

Is BLS different than CPR?

No. CPR C is geared toward ‘lay rescuers’, or people who work in the community but may need to know CPR in case of a life-threatening emergency. BLS, or ‘Basic Life Support’ is geared toward Professional Responders and Health Care Professionals who work in a clinical environment outside of a hospital. CPR C will focus on basic life saving principles and how to do CPR in a variety of situations. BLS will focus on a very specific, detailed approach to performing CPR as part of a 2 person BLS team. BLS also covers more in-depth assessment and life saving treatments using more specialized equipment.

What is BLS training?

BLS stands for Basic Life Support which is geared toward Professional Responders and Health Care Professionals who may have to perform CPR before Advanced Cardiac Life Support is available The goal of BLS training is to become not just competent, but proficient at performing CPR skills as a 2 person team with others certified in BLS. To reach this goal of proficiency, BLS courses focus entirely on CPR (and other critical interventions) in the healthcare context, and do not address CPR for lay rescuers. This means much more practice time with the skills, tools, and teamwork involved in delivering CPR to a BLS standard. Also, certification is only valid for one year, requiring annual practice in the form of a shorter recertification course on an annual basis in order to stay certified. Since this is a national standard the hope is that widespread adoption of BLS will improve the efficiency and interoperability of healthcare workers and professional responders when performing CPR - and ultimately improve the survival rate for patients who suffer cardiac arrest in situations where ACLS may not be immediately available.

Certification

BLS certifcations are now virtual

You will receive a temporary BLS certificate at the end of your course, and a permanent Basic Life Support certificate will be emailed to you after you've successfully completed the course. You will be able to view your manual and certification online at any time through your MyRedCross account. BLS Certification is valid for 1 year.

Recertification

Basic Life Support Recertification 

If you have a current and valid Basic Life Support or CPR Level HCP certificate, you are eligible to take a shorter, faster-paced Basic Life Support recertification course. Please be prepared to show proof of certification.

Eligibility: To be eligible for recertification, you must have taken a BLS or HCP course with one of the listed first aid training agencies: Canadian Red Cross, Lifesaving Society, Heart and Stroke Foundation, Vancouver First Aid, St. John Ambulance, or Ski Patrol. Additionally, you should have completed the initial course within the last 1 years and still possess a valid certificate.

 

Materials

First Aid Course Materials for Basic Life Support in Vancouver

The Basic Life Support (BLS) course includes the following materials:

  • Canadian Red Cross Basic Life Support Field Guide (virtual)
  • Canadian Red Cross Comprehensive Guide to First Aid (virtual)

 

Where to find us:

Visit our Vancouver training courses here.

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Who should take this course?

  • In-facility care providers
  • nursing staff
  • care aides
  • medical and dental professionals
  • pre-hospital care providers
  • fire service
  • rescue team
  • sports-medicine
  • lifeguards
  • ski patrol

Looking for a group class?

If you have a group of people and would like us to come to you to teach a
Basic Life Support course, we offer this course in the following locations:

Vancouver | Burnaby | New Westminster | Port Moody | Port Coquitlam | Coquitlam | Richmond | North Vancouver

Give us a call at 1.866.282.5378, or send us an email at to arrange a group course.

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