About Course

About Course: 

For anyone with limited or no medical training who needs to learn how to respond to and manage a first 
aid, choking or sudden cardiac arrest emergency in the first few minutes until emergency responders or 
healthcare professionals take over. Students learn skills such as how to treat bleeding, sprains, broken 
bones, shock and other first aid emergencies. 

The AHA's Heartsaver First Aid Course is a classroom, Instructor-led course designed to prepare 
students to provide first aid use in a safe, timely, and effective manner.

Course Content: 

After successfully completing this course, students should be able to:

 List the priorities, roles, and responsibilities of first aid rescuers
 Describe the key steps in first aid
 Remove protective gloves
 Find the problem
 Describe the assessment and first aid actions for the following life-threatening 
conditions: heart attack, difficulty breathing, choking, severe bleeding, shock, and 
stroke
 Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child
 Demonstrate how to help a choking infant
 Use an epinephrine pen
 Control bleeding and bandaging
 Recognize elements of common injuries
 Recognize elements of common illnesses
 Describe how to find information on preventing illness and injury
 Recognize the legal questions that apply to first aid rescuers