The Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) course builds on the foundation of Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR. This advanced course highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care, and immediate post-cardiac arrest care. ACLS also covers airway management and related pharmacology.
The ACLS course is for healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies.
This includes personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care, and critical care units such as physicians, nurses, and paramedics, as well as others who need an ACLS course completion card for job or other requirements.
Prerequisites:
- Basic Life Support (BLS): You must have a current American Heart Association (AHA) BLS credential; please submit this credential, via email, prior to the date of the ACLS course.
- ACLS Precourse Self-Assessment and Precourse Work: This involves reviewing course content through online videos before entering the classroom. The video lessons cover multiple medical subjects, and each lesson includes questions to engage and better prepare you to participate in the hands-on skills training.
This must be completed with a score of at least 70% and submitted, via email, prior to the ACLS course, it is available here.
The current AHA ACLS textbook for this course is required; if already owned, it need not be purchased, but it must be brought on the date of the course, to confirm it is the correct version.
If the textbook is needed, please select an option below and it will be provided, upon registration if the “E" version (no addition charge) is selected, or by mail if the “Ship to me” (14.99 shipping fee) option is selected, or on the date of the course (if selecting the hard copy, please see shipping options on next page):
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