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*