Courses We Offer

Heartsaver CPR/AED Course

The American Heart Association Heartsaver CPR and AED courses are designed for those with no medical training to quickly and easily learn the steps of CPR and how to operate an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) until advanced help arrives.

This video-led AHA CPR Certification course prepares participants in Surprise, Sun City West & Phoenix, AZ, to quickly recognize and assist those with a suspected heart attack and/or cardiac arrest in adults, children, and/or infants. This class can be divided into only adult/child or only infant knowledge; you take the course that you need/want.

Teachers, those who provide child care, personal/group fitness trainers, non-medical caregivers, scout leaders, coaches, electricians, and security guards are just a few examples to whom this class is directed.

The Heartsaver CPR/AED course focuses on the following concepts:

• The AHA Chain of Survival
• High-quality CPR for adults/children and infants
• Important early use of an AED
• Giving quality breaths with and without a pocket mask
• Relief of choking for adults/children and infants

Each AHA CPR Certification course participant receives as much time practicing on the manikin to ensure that they feel comfortable performing life-saving skills as needed.

Our knowledgeable, experienced instructors are trained to help make each person learning CPR as comfortable as possible.

Heartsaver First Aid Course

Heartsaver First Aid Certification course can be taken with or without CPR/AED. This video-led course teaches how to quickly recognize and respond to the most common first aid emergencies until advanced help arrives.

This course is for those who require certification for their work or school in Surprise, AZ, such as teachers, coaches, fitness professionals, scout leaders, construction workers, non-medical caregivers, and outdoor recreation staff.

The Heartsaver First Aid Certification course focuses on the following concepts:

• First Aid basics
• Medical Emergencies
• Injury Emergencies
• Environmental Emergencies
• Preventing illness and injury

Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid Course

The American Heart Association Pediatric First Aid course can be combined with Heartsaver CPR/AED, for a comprehensive course is perfect for Teachers, child care experts, Scout leaders, camp counselors and foster parents, and anyone else who may need to immediately respond to an illness or injury of a child or infant until advanced help arrives.

The Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid course focuses on the following concepts:

• Prevention of illness and injury
• Medical Emergencies
• Injury Emergencies
• Environmental Emergencies

Topics covered include blood sugar emergencies, bleeding and bandaging, allergic reactions, amputations, sprains, and broken bones, tooth loss and splinters, and much more.
 
Our professional, expert Instructors will entertain you while making certain you learn the skills necessary to assist should a true pediatric medical emergency should arise.
 

ACLS Course

Our stress-free American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) course is designed to educate healthcare professionals such as physicians, physicians assistants, nurses, dentists paramedics to assess and manage cardiac arrest due to VF/VT using the following course modules:

• Recognition and management of cardiac and respiratory arrest
• Management of stroke and acute coronary syndromes
• Pharmacology
• Communicating effectively with a team

This class is for those who may be relied upon to respond to a cardiac emergency such as nurses, paramedics, physicians, physician assistants, dentists, and other medical professionals whose job description requires this knowledge.

Working knowledge of BLS, cardiac pharmacology, and rhythm recognition is required for successful completion of this course. Our hands-on format reinforces skills proficiency while each participant acts as both Team Leader and Team member in a hands-on Mega Code scenario. Our energetic and experienced instructors are all physicians, nurses, and paramedics who have performed resuscitation in both PRE hospital and hospital environments for a well-rounded perspective.

PALS Course

The American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) course is designed to provide the healthcare team the information needed to recognize and treat critically ill children and infants with the goal of improved outcomes.

This course includes 12 in-hospital pediatric patient cases including:

• Recognition and management of respiratory distress and failure
• Differentiation between compensated and decompensated shock
• Early interventions for the treatment of shock
• Arrhythmia differentiation and clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
• Post cardiac arrest management

This video-led, scenario-based course is for those who may respond to life-threatening emergencies in children and infants such as physicians, nurses, paramedics, and other medical professionals whose job description requires this knowledge.

Working knowledge of pharmacology, arrhythmia recognition, and BLS are required for this course.  Skills are practiced and reinforced by utilizing team scenarios.  Each course participant will have the opportunity to act as both a Team Member and a Team Lead in each of the 12 in-hospital PALS Case Scenarios.

After successful completion of all PALS Case Scenarios, students will be given a 50-question multiple-choice exam on which a score of 84% or better is required to receive a 2-year PALS course completion certificate.

Our knowledgeable and qualified instructors in and around Surprise, Sun City West & Phoenix, AZ, are all physicians, nurses, and paramedics ensuring a well-rounded perspective of both PRE and in-hospital emergencies.