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CPR Courses for Medical Professionals and Schools

Classes

HELP4CPR in Southeastern Michigan offers a range of classes for individuals and groups. Here’s an overview of the classes

we provide.

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Instructor Led

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  • Basic Life Support
  • Heart Saver First Aid, CPR, AED
  • Heart Saver CPR, AED
  • Heart Saver First Aid
  • Heart Saver Pediatric First Aid, CPR, AED, First AID

Blended Learning a – Online

  • Basic Life Support - Heart Code
  • Heart Saver First Aid, CPR, AED online
  • Heart Saver CPR, AED Online
  • Heart Saver First Aid, Online
  • Heart Saver Pediatric, First Aid, CPR, AED Online
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Basic Life Support (BLS)

AHA’s BLS Course provides the foundation for saving lives after cardiac arrest. Updated to reflect new 2015 science, BLS teaches the concepts of high-quality CPR, improvement of chest compression fraction, and high-performing team dynamics.

BLS from AHA offers the advantages of:

  • Content representing the latest resuscitation science for improved patient outcomes
  • Realistic scenarios, simulations, and animations depicting rescuers, teams, and patients
  • Course and content flexibility for AHA Instructors and students, including adaptability to local protocols

Who Should Take the Course?

  • Health care professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings

Courses Covers

  • New science and education from the 2015 AHA Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC
  • The components of high-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
  • The AHA Chain of Survival for prehospital and in-facility providers
  • Important early use of an AED 
    • Effective ventilations using a barrier device
    • Importance of teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR
    • Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants 
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Course Delivery

BLS can be delivered in two formats to meet the needs of students and offer flexibility for instructors. All formats include the same learning objectives and result in the same course completion card.

        • Instructor-Led Training

Instructors deliver both the cognitive portion of training and the psychomotor component of thorough skills practice and testing in a classroom setting.

      • Blended Learning – HeartCode BLS®

This includes a combination of eLearning, in which a student completes part of the course in a self-directed manner, and a hands-on session.

Family & Friends ® CPR

The American Heart Association’s Family & Friends CPR Course teaches the lifesaving skills of adult Hands-Only CPR, adult CPR with breaths, child CPR, adult and child AED use, infant CPR, and choking relief for adults, children, and infants.


These topics can be presented together or taught separately as stand-alone modules. Skills are taught by using the AHA’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allows participants to practice on a CPR training manikin while observing a demonstration of the skills in the course video.


Family & Friends CPR may be taught by an AHA Instructor or led by a facilitator (a community member, family member, or friend) who wishes to pass on lifesaving CPR skills to others.

Who Should Take the Course?

Family & Friends CPR is intended for anyone who wants to learn CPR, but does not need a CPR course completion card to meet a job requirement. This course is ideal for community groups, parents, grandparents, caregivers, schools and students, and others interested in learning how to save a life.


As a facilitated or Instructor-led course, Family & Friends CPR extends the availability of and access to training, so that more people can learn CPR and use their skills to act quickly in an emergency.

Course Covers

  • Adult Hands-Only CPR and AED
  • Adult CPR With Breaths (Optional)
  • Mild and Severe Airway Block: How to Help a Choking Adult (Optional)
  • Child CPR and AED (Optional) 
  • Mild and Severe Airway Block: How to Help a Choking Child (Optional)
  • Infant CPR (Optional)
  • Mild and Severe Airway Block: How to Help a Choking Infant (Optional)

Course Materials

Course materials for Family & Friends CPR include a Student Manual with tear-out participation card and a DVD packaged with a free Facilitator Guide. The Facilitator Guide includes essential information for Instructors and facilitators of Family & Friends CPR classes.

Course Delivery

Learn the skills to save a life in a group setting led by an AHA Instructor or a facilitator.

Heartsaver® CPR AED

According to the 2015 Guidelines Update, CPR training helps people learn the necessary skills and develop the confidence to provide CPR when encountering a cardiac arrest victim. AEDs can be used by the public regardless of whether the responder has been trained, even minimal training improves performance, timeliness, and efficacy. 


AHA’s Heartsaver CPR AED course provides the knowledge and skills that may help save a life. Although much is being done to prevent death from heart problems, cardiac arrest is still one of the leading causes of death in the United States. The skills learned in this course will help you recognize cardiac arrest, get emergency care on the way quickly, and help the person until more advanced care arrives to take over.


Heartsaver courses from AHA offer: a cohesive, consistent experience for the learner, best practices to give students the best possible learning experience and help them better retain information, enhanced and realistic scenarios, while providing course and content flexibility.

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Who Should Take the Course?

Heartsaver courses are intended for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for job, regulatory (e.g., OSHA), or other requirements. These courses can also be taken by anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting.

COURSE COVERS

      • Adult CPR and AED Use
      • Opioid-Associated Life-threatening Emergencies
      • Adult Choking
      • Child CPR and AED Use 
          • Child Choking
          • Infant CPR
          • Infant Choking
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Course Delivery

This is delivered in two formats to meet the needs of students and offer flexibility for instructors. All formats include the same learning objectives and result in the same course completion card.

          • Instructor-led Training

Heartsaver classroom courses feature group interaction and hands-on coaching and feedback from an AHA Instructor. Classroom courses may be conducted onsite at the company’s location or at a local training center in your area.

          • Blended Learning

Heartsaver blended courses include an online portion and a hands-on portion. The online portion can be completed at work, at home, or wherever you have internet access. The hands-on skills practice and testing session are conducted in-person with an AHA BLS or Heartsaver Instructor.

Heartsaver® First Aid

The 2015 Guidelines Update for First Aid reaffirms the goals of first aid: to reduce morbidity and mortality by alleviating suffering, preventing further illness or injury, and promoting recovery. The scope of first aid has been expanded, particularly for control of severe bleeding. First aid can be initiated by anyone, in any situation, and includes self-care.


AHA’s Heartsaver First Aid course provides the knowledge and skills that may help save a life. It offers the basics of first aid, consisting of the most common life-threatening emergencies, how to recognize them, how to call for help, and how to perform lifesaving skills. The most important goal of this course is to teach students to act in an emergency.


Heartsaver courses from AHA offer: a cohesive, consistent experience for the learner, best practices to give students the best possible learning experience and help them better retain information, enhanced and realistic scenarios, while providing course and content flexibility.

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Who Should Take the Course?

Heartsaver courses are intended for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for job, regulatory (e.g., OSHA), or other requirements. These courses can also be taken by anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting.

Course Covers

  • First-Aid Basics (Duties, roles, and responsibilities of first aid rescuers, key steps of first aid)
  • Medical Emergencies (Breathing, choking, allergic reaction, heart attack, stroke, and more)
  • Injury Emergencies (External and internal bleeding, wounds, sprain, broken bones, burns, and more) 
  • Environmental Emergencies (Bites and stings, cold- and heat-related emergencies, poisonings, and more)
  • Preventing Illness and Injury 
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Course Delivery

This is delivered in two formats to meet the needs of students and offer flexibility for instructors. All formats include the same learning objectives and result in the same course completion card.

        • Instructor-Led Training

Heartsaver classroom courses feature group interaction and hands-on coaching and feedback from an AHA Instructor. Classroom courses may be conducted onsite at the company’s location or at a local training center in your area.

          • Blended Learning

Heartsaver blended courses include an online portion and a hands-on portion. The online portion can be completed at work, at home, or wherever you have internet access. The hands-on skills practice and testing session is conducted in-person with an AHA BLS or Heartsaver Instructor.

Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED

The latest science says quick action, quality training, use of mobile technology, and coordinated efforts can increase survival from cardiac arrest, a leading cause of death in the United States. The 2015 Guidelines recommend the training to develop better systems of care, especially in the event of a cardiac arrest.


Everyone should know what to do at every step of a cardiovascular emergency. Effective bystander CPR, provided immediately after cardiac arrest, can double or triple a victim’s chance of survival.


AHA’s Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED course provides the knowledge and skills that may help save a life. It also offers the basics of first aid for the most common life-threatening emergencies, covering how to recognize them, how to call for help, and how to perform lifesaving skills.


Heartsaver courses from AHA offer: a cohesive, consistent experience for the learner, best practices to give students the best possible learning experience and help them better retain information, enhanced and realistic scenarios, while providing course and content flexibility.

Who Should Take the Course?

Heartsaver courses are intended for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for job, regulatory (e.g., OSHA), or other requirements. These courses can also be taken by anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting.

Course Covers

    • Adult CPR and AED Use
    • Opioid-Associated Life-Threatening Emergencies
    • Child CPR and AED Use
    • Infant CPR
    • First Aid Basics
    • Choking in an Adult, Child, or Infant
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Course Delivery

Delivered in two formats to meet the needs of students and offer flexibility for instructors. All formats include the same learning objectives and result in the same course completion card.

        • Instructor-Led Training

Heartsaver classroom courses feature group interaction and hands-on coaching and feedback from an AHA Instructor. Classroom courses may be conducted onsite at the company’s location or at a local training center in your area.

          • Blended Learning

Heartsaver blended courses include an online portion and a hands-on portion. The online portion can be completed at work, at home, or wherever you have internet access. The hands-on skills practice and testing session are conducted in-person with an AHA BLS or Heartsaver Instructor.

Heartsaver® Pediatric First Aid CPR AED

The Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR AED course is designed to meet the training needs of childcare providers in almost all U.S. states while also being a comprehensive resource for parents, grandparents, teachers, babysitters or anyone responsible for the safety of children.


Combining online and hands-on skill components, this one-stop-shop course teaches childcare providers and parents critical first aid, CPR and AED skills. Responding to injuries and illnesses is the most common situation childcare providers face, but it’s important to quickly assess which ones are minor and which carry the urgency of a life-threatening emergency.


Heartsaver courses from AHA offer: a cohesive, consistent experience for the learner, best practices to give students the best possible learning experience and help them better retain information, enhanced and realistic scenarios, while providing course and content flexibility.

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Who Should Take the Course?

Companies with a workforce where First Aid CPR AED training may prove invaluable for the safety of both their employees and customers (childcare workers, teachers, foster care workers, camp counselors, coaches, etc.). The general public that desires to be prepared for an emergency in any setting (parents, grandparents, babysitters and guardians).

Course Covers

  • Pediatric First Aid Basics (bleeding/bandaging, allergic reactions, use an epinephrine pen, bites, stings, drowning, burns, asthma, and more)
  • Child CPR AED
  • Child Choking 
    • Infant Choking
    • Adult CPR AED (Optional)
    • Adult Choking (Optional)
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Course Delivery

This is delivered in two formats to meet the needs of students and offer flexibility for instructors. All formats include the same learning objectives and result in the same course completion card.

        • Instructor-Led Training

Heartsaver classroom courses feature group interaction and hands-on coaching and feedback from an AHA Instructor. Classroom courses may be conducted onsite at the company’s location or at a local training center in your area.

          • Blended Learning

Heartsaver blended courses include an online portion and a hands-on portion. The online portion can be completed at work, at home, or wherever you have internet access. The hands-on skills practice and testing session is conducted in-person with an AHA BLS or Heartsaver Instructor.

*Information lifted from http://cpr.heart.org. For more information, visit American Heart Association’s website today.

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