Internationally Accredited ACLS & BLS Courses for medical professionals

Internationally Accredited ACLS & BLS Courses for medical professionals

Cardiovascular diseases remain to be the leading cause of death and disability in the world.

Many studies have clearly highlighted the fact that the fatal or foreboding effects of the cardiovascular disease are preventable, yet they continue to rise; primarily because the awareness and preventive strategies remain inadequate.

Systematic understanding and practicing the flow of care developed by the American Heart Association (AHA) can help improve the survival rates to a great extent.

As a healthcare professional, you always have a critical role in providing high-quality cardiovascular care.

The AHA is a non-profit organization in the USA that fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular diseases and strokes.
It is originally established in New York City in 1924 as the Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease. The AHA, a national voluntary health agency, is currently headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Also known for publishing standards on Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), they issued the first guidelines for preventing strokes in women in 2014. They are also popular for operating a number of highly visible public service campaigns starting in the 1970s, and also operate a number of fundraising events.

The AHA is a non-profit organization in the USA that fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular diseases and strokes.

We, at Florence Academy, support the mission of the American Heart Association's Emergency Cardiovascular Care Program to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke by improving the chain of survival in every community.

We provide coachings in BLS and ACLS for Healthcare Providers and the laypersons taught according to AHA 2010 Guidelines.

We understand that there are too many coaching centers out there claiming the same, but we urge you to not be fooled by the statement "taught according to AHA guidelines" or some variation of that statement. Such statements alone do not make it a valid AHA card. The AHA course completion cards are the Gold Standard in the field and are universally accepted by all employers. Our highly qualified staff of BLS and ACLS instructors provide nationally recognized American Heart Association courses with a 2-year certification for healthcare providers in

• Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)

What is Basic Life Support?

The instructor-led, video-based Basic Life Support (BLS) Course teaches both single-rescuer and team basic life support. The coaching enables participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilation and provide early use of an AED. BLS coaching center teaches skills using the American Heart Association’s proven Practice-While-Watching (PWW) technique, which allows Instructors to observe students, provide feedback and guide students’ acquisition of skills.

Course Details

Critical concepts of high-quality CPR

1) The AHA Chain of Survival, in specific, the BLS components

2) 1-Rescuer CPR and AED for infant, child and adult

3) 2-Rescuer CPR and AED for infant, child and adult

4) Differences between adult, child and infant rescue techniques

5) Bag-mask techniques for adult, child and infant

6) Rescue breathing for adult, child and infant

7) Relief from choking (Foreign Body Airway Obstruction)for adult, child and infant8) CPR with an advanced airway

Who should attend this course?

This coaching is designed for healthcare professionals who want to learn how to perform CPR, as well as other lifesaving skills, in a wide variety of in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings.

What is Advanced Cardiac Life Support

The AHA’s ACLS Course builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS for Healthcare Providers skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR. This advanced, instructor-led coaching accentuates the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care and immediate post-cardiac-arrest care. The ACLS course also covers airway management. In this Course, the required skills are taught in large group sessions and small, group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented.

Successful course completion includes demonstrating skills competency in all learning stations and passing the CPR and AED skills test, bag-mask ventilation skills test, a Mega code test and a written test.

Upon successful completion, students receive an ACLS Provider card that is valid for two years.

Course Details

• Basic Life Support Review

• Rhythm Recognition

• Systematic Approach

• Airway Management

• Recognition and early management of:

          1) Peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia, unstable Tachycardia and heart block.

        2) Respiratory Arrest, Cardiac Arrest and post-cardiac arrest

• Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome

• Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke

• Effective Resuscitation Team Dynamics

• Intravenous (IV)/Intraosseous (IO) Access

• Coping with death

Florence Academy is an authorized training centre for American Heart Association’s Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) coaching.

Who should attend this course?

ACLS coaching is designed for those healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest and other cardiovascular emergencies. Health care professionals working in any healthcare discipline with all levels of experience with a valid BLS card can enroll in the course.

This targets personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units.