BASIC LIFE SUPPORT

BASIC LIFE SUPPORT

COURSE OVERVIEW

The Green Box Basic Life Support (BLS)course covers basic life support skills and includes skills for adults, children, and infants as well as healthcare variations on infant CPR. The course includes putting yourself first with scene assessment and your safety.

We look at primary assessment, recovery position, CPR, compression only CPR, CPR handover and choking. It focuses on the core of first aid and what to do in life threatening emergencies.

We can provide this BLS course as an instructor led session with one of our experienced trainers, an online or a blended course. We like to be flexible so please let us know what we can do for you.

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WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

This BLS course complies with the latest 2021 ERC and UK Resuscitation Council Guidelines and is aimed at Healthcare Professionals with a duty to respond in the workplace.

TOPICS COVERED

  • Introduction and Initial care
  • BLS for Healthcare professionals Introduction
  • Optional Basic Life Support or video link Evaluation
  • Fears of First Aid
  • Asking Permission to Help
  • Scene Safety
  • Chain of Survival
  • Introduction to the ABCDE approach
  • ABCDE approach to patient care
  • Barriers and gloves
  • Adult Bag Valve Mask
  • respiration and breathing
  • Pulse points
  • Initial assessment and Recovery Position
  • Infant recovery Position
  • Cardiac Arrest
  • First Aid vs BLS healthcare Professionals
  • Adult CPR Introduction
  • Heart Attack
  • Adult CPR
  • Effective CPR
  • CPR hand Over
  • Compression Only CPR
  • Drowning
  • AED Introduction
  • Child CPR
  • Child CPR Breakdown
  • Child CPR for Healthcare Professionals
  • Infant CPR
  • Infant CPR for Healthcare Professionals
  • Oxygen First Aid
  • Choking Training
  • Adult Choking
  • Child Choking
  • Infant Choking

ASSESSMENT & ACCREDITATION

This BLS course includes a practical assessment and multiple choice examination.

Successful delegates will receive a Green Box Certificate and evidence of CPD.

Please note: It is recommended that you refresh this course with us every 12 months – please give us a call for details.

DURATION

3 hours contact time.

OUR PRICES

Individual bookings: £75 per person

Group bookings: £350 for up to 12 people

Prices include certificate & manual, COVID PPE, online resources, wallet card, certified CPD evidence and a face shield key ring

Price Excludes VAT @ 20%

Green Box First Aid Training has classroom locations for our First Aid Courses in Windsor, Slough, Bracknell, Reading, Newbury and Farnborough. These locations are where we hold our public first aid training courses. But these can also be used for private group bookings. Our public courses normally run once a month at each venue, please check our live booking system for details.

We can also train you at your place of work. We specialise in in-house first aid courses. We can train at your workplace or venue. Or we can find training facilities in a location of your choice. We have instructors across the UK and we travel the length of the country so please do get in touch.

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Contact us to find out more or get a quote