The Adult and Pediatric CPR/AED course incorporates the latest science and teaches students how to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies to help victims of any age – adults (about 12 years and older) and pediatric (infants and children up to 12 years of age). Students who successfully complete this course will receive a certificate for Adult and Pediatric CPR/AED valid for two years.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe how to recognize an emergency and size up the scene.
• Explain how to activate and work with the emergency medical services (EMS) system.
• Understand legal concepts as they apply to lay responders, including consent and the purpose of Good Samaritan laws.
• Identify how to reduce the risk of disease transmission when giving care.
• Demonstrate how to check a person who is responsive for life-threatening and non-life-threatening conditions.
• Explain how to check an injured or ill person who appears to be unresponsive.
• Recognize the signs and symptoms of a heart attack and describe appropriate first aid care for a person who is showing these signs and symptoms.
• Describe the links in the Cardiac Chain of Survival.
• Demonstrate CPR and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) for a person who is in cardiac arrest.
• Demonstrate first aid care for a person who is choking.