CPR and First Aid Certification

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AHA Heartsaver First Aid & CPR Course Content

The American Heart Association Heartsaver CPR and First Aid course is one step above the basic Heartsaver class. With the CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) component of the course, you will learn how to do CPR on all age groups — adults, children, and infants. You will also learn about airway obstructions and how to use AEDs* (automated external defibrillators) to improve your emergency situation skills. In-Pulse CPR offers Florida, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania residents with AHA-certified, trusted CPR training. We are passionate about making sure that each student leaves the classroom feeling confident in the skills they gained.

In-Pulse CPR provides public classes at more than 50 separate locations. Whether you are on the safety committee at your place of work, need certification for licensing, or an individual who wants to simply know how to properly provide CPR to members of their community in an emergency, we have CPR and AED training classes near you.

Sign Up for Heartsaver CPR & First Aid classes today!

*Heartsaver CPR/AED is no longer offered as a standalone training. Please register for a BLS Provider course instead, and contact us for more information.

You will learn a number of essential CPR skills, techniques, and more, including:

  • On-site safety
  • Early warning signs of heart attack and stroke
  • Checking responsiveness and breathing
  • Activating EMS
  • Adult, child, and infant CPR
  • 1-and 2-person rescue
  • Assisting choking victims
  • Breathing (both mouth-to-mouth and via bag mask device)
  • Basic (AED) automated external defibrillator operation and function
  • Hands-on skill performance testing

The first aid section of this Heartsaver course goes over:

  • On-site safety
  • Initial assessment
  • Assessing responsiveness
  • Activating EMS
  • Control of bleeding
  • Managing shock
  • Introduction to illness and injury
  • Warning signs of medical illness
  • Mechanism of injury
  • Emergency move
  • Managing specific first aid problems

Please visit our public training calendar for a listing of classes in your area. For groups of five or more, you can request this training at your site. These 5 1/2-hour private classes are offered Monday through Friday at times convenient to your schedule.

Why Train with & Get Certified by In-Pulse CPR

The ultimate reason to learn CPR, first aid, and how to use AEDs is to give yourself the training you need to potentially save a life. For example, in Rochester, Minnesota, a boy named Cody Runya was swimming in a pool when he saw a child just lying at the bottom. Cody quickly swam down and pulled the child up the surface. Another boy nearby saw him struggling to get the drowning victim out of the water, so ran over to help bring him out.

The boy was no longer underwater, but he was no longer breathing either. A third rescuer, Desiree Pasko, quickly began doing CPR on the child. She started with chest compressions and rescue breathing, just as she was taught in her CPR class. Eventually the child’s face, which was blue before, slowly began to get some pink in the cheeks. Desiree kept up the rescue breathing and chest compressions and then turned him on his side, hoping he would cough and vomit — which he did! Both Cody and Desiree, due to their fast thinking and CPR training, had saved the child’s life.

These kinds of stories happen all the time — unfortunately, there aren’t always people like Desiree and Cody there to help. We want to change that. The more people know CPR, the more likely someone in an emergency gets the immediate support they need. Situations that call for CPR include:

Cardiac arrest
Near-drowning incidents
Suffocation
And any other situation where a person is not breathing

CPR training is a valuable tool that everyone should have at their disposal. That’s why In-Pulse CPR is committed to teaching as many people as possible how to properly do CPR. If you are in Florida, Minnesota, or Pennsylvania, register for a CPR & First Aid class with In-Pulse today! You may end up saving a stranger, or, more likely, the life of someone you know and love in an emergency. Life is precious; we should prepare ourselves properly so we can help preserve and protect it in time-critical emergency situations.

CPR Training from Novice to CPR Expert

Our approved American Heart Association training centers are responsible for training more than 800 students each and every month. All of our instructors are AHA-certified and have the passion and experience to provide you the potentially life-saving knowledge you need to prevent an emergency from becoming a tragedy.

Ready To Sign Up?

In-Pulse CPR provides private, corporate, non-profit, and custom group training for groups of 5 or more or, alternately, you can register for our standard public classes and training offered in multiple states, locations, and at various times for your convenience. Upon the successful completion of the course, students will receive a course completion card, which is valid for two years. If you are getting certified for the sake of employment, please verify with your employer that you are selecting the correct course before signing up. If you’re looking for AHA-certified CPR and first aid training that is communicated clearly, affordable, thorough, and engaging, register for a class near you today!