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The EMS Institute Inc. is an American Heart Association (AHA) Training Center.
We oversee over 60 instructors who can teach an array of courses including initial classes,
refresher classes, and skill testing.
If you need a CPR class, please contact us at coordinator@emsinstitute.org.
BLS: Basic Life Support
The American Heart Association’s BLS course develops single-rescuer and team basic life support skills for prehospital and healthcare settings, with an emphasis on high-quality CPR and effective teamwork.
Contact our coordinator for class dates, prerequisites, and the course materials you will need.
Upon completion, a student will have knowledge of:
- The importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival;
- All of the steps of the Chain of Survival;
- The signs of someone needing CPR;
- The importance of early use of an AED;
- The importance of teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation.
Additionally, the student will have practiced and demonstrated:
- Practical application of the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival;
- Performing high-quality CPR for adults, children and infants;
- The use of an AED;
- Providing effective ventilations using a barrier device;
- The ability to perform as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR;
- The technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants.
CPR AED and First Aid
American Heart Association's Heartsaver courses are designed to prepare students to provide first aid, administer CPR, and use an AED in a safe, timely, and effective manner.
Heartsaver Instructor-led training is conducted in a classroom setting and features group interaction and hands-on coaching and feedback from an American Heart Association Instructor. Heartsaver blended learning courses include an online portion that can be completed either at work, home, or wherever students have Internet access. Upon successful completion of the online portion, students attend a hands-on skills session with an American Heart Association Instructor.
Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR AED Course
The Heartsaver pediatric course is designed to meet the regulatory requirements for child care workers in all 50 U.S. states. It teaches child care providers and others to respond to illnesses and injuries in a child or infant in the first few minutes until professional help arrives. The course covers child/infant CPR, child/infant AED, child/infant choking, and pediatric first aid;
What You’ll Learn:
- First Aid Basics: Duties and Key Steps
- Illnesses and injuries
- Controlling Bleeding and Bandaging
- Using a Tourniquet
- Shock
- Internal bleeding
- Burns and electrical injuries
- Allergic Reactions
- Using an epinephrine pen
- Breathing problems
- Dehydration
- Diabetes and low blood sugar
- Heat-related emergencies
- Cold-related emergencies
- Amputations
- Bites and stings
- Broken bones and sprains
- Eye injuries
- Bleeding from the nose
- Fainting
- Head, neck, and spine Injuries
- Penetrating and puncturing injuries
- Poison emergencies
- Seizure
- Mouth and cheek injuries
- Preventing Illness and Injury
- First Aid Resources
- CPR and AED Use for Adults*, Children and Infants
- Adult*, Child, and Infant Choking
*Adult modules in CPR, AED and choking are optional.
ACLS: Advanced Cardiac Life Support
ACLS is an advanced, Instructor-led classroom course that highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care, and immediate post-cardiac arrest care. It also covers airway management and related pharmacology. In this course, skills are taught in large, group sessions and small, group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented.
Course Topics & Skills Covered
- Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device, and use of an AED;
- Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest;
- Recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia;
- Airway management;
- Related pharmacology;
- Management of ACS and stroke;
- Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team.
PALS: Pediatric Advanced Life Support Training
The American Heart Association’s PALS course uses pediatric emergency scenarios to strengthen assessment, resuscitation skills, and team communication when caring for seriously ill or injured infants and children.
Contact our coordinator for class dates, prerequisites, and the course materials you will need.
Course Topics & Skills Covered
- High-quality Child CPR and AED, and Infant CPR;
- Recognition of patients who do and do not require immediate intervention;
- Recognition of cardiopulmonary arrest early and application of CPR within 10 seconds;
- Differentiation between respiratory distress and failure;
- Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device, and use of an AED
- Recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia;
- Airway management;
- Related pharmacology;
- Management of ACS and stroke;
- Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team
Bloodborne Pathogens
This classroom course teaches employees how to protect themselves and others from being exposed to blood or blood-containing materials. This course is designed to meet OSHA requirements for bloodborne pathogens training when paired with site-specific instruction. The Heartsaver BBP Course uses the PACT acronym (Protect, Act, Clean, Tell) and tagline, “Make a PACT, Know How to Act™”, to help students learn and easily recall bloodborne pathogens training.
Course Topics & Safety Practices Covered
- Protect themselves from blood or blood-containing materials;
- Act quickly and safely;
- Clean the area that has blood or blood-containing materials;
- Tell their supervisor about the incident.
Become an instructor
Teach lifesaving skills and expand your professional impact
If you’re interested in becoming an instructor or teaching CPR and lifesaving courses, we’d love to hear from you.
EMS Institute is an authorized training site offering instructor pathways for: Heartsaver CPR AED & First Aid, BLS, ACLS, PALS, PEARS
Certification or Recertification
Get certified or renew with confidence
Whether you’re getting certified for the first time or need to renew your credentials, our team of over 60 certified instructors is here to help.
We offer flexible scheduling and instructor-led training to meet your certification or recertification needs.