About Course:
For anyone with limited or no medical training who needs to learn how to respond to and manage a sudden cardiac arrest emergency in the first few minutes until emergency responders or
healthcare professionals take over.
The AHA's Heartsaver CPR AED Course is a classroom, Instructor-led course designed to prepare
students to provide CPR, and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) use in a safe, timely,
and effective manner.
Upon successful completion of the course, including a CPR and AED
skills test, students receive a Heartsaver CPR AED course completion card, valid for two years.
Course Content:
After successfully completing this course, students should be able to:
Describe how high-quality CPR improves survival
Explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival
Recognize when someone needs CPR
Perform high-quality CPR for an adult
Describe how to perform CPR with help from others
Give effective breaths using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
Demonstrate how to use an AED on an adult
Perform high-quality CPR for a child*
Demonstrate how to use an AED on a child*
Perform high-quality CPR for an infant*
Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child
Demonstrate how to help a choking infant*
If you hold a clinical licence, your employer most likely wants BLS instead. See BLS vs CPR and the BLS course page.
Need more than CPR? Compare CPR AED vs first aid, or see the full first aid course.