BLS (Basic Life Support)

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Course Location

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Bayview Campus)

Course Time & Schedule

Saturday or Sunday: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Course fees: $100

2020 BLS Manual: $20

The BLS course focuses on teaching the essential skills rescuers need to know to perform high-quality CPR in a wide variety of settings. It teaches both single-rescuer and team basic life support skills for application in pre-hospital and in-facility settings. After successfully completing the BLS Course, students should be able to:

• Recognize a patient in cardiac arrest and other life-threatening emergencies
• Initiate high-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
• Properly use an automatic external defibrillator (AED)
• Manage a patient with a foreign body airway obstruction

Basic Life Support (BLS) is designed for healthcare professionals and trained first responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of both in-facility and prehospital settings or by those that require BLS certification and CPR training to enter into a healthcare-related training program.

• There are no prerequisites to taking this course

• BLS Course Completion Card is issued by the Heart & Stroke Foundation
• Completion card valid for one year from date of issue
• Completion card is accessible by logging onto student account on Heart & Stroke Portal

Mainpro+ Credits (CFPC)
Although this program has not been formally reviewed and approved by the CFPC, participants may claim 1 credit per hour of participation as Non-Certified Group Learning in Mainpro+. For more details, visit the College of Family Physicians of Canada website or Heart & Stroke.

MAINPORT Credits (RCPSC)
Participants can claim 2 credits per hour under Section 2 of the MOC Programs as “Traineeships”. For more details, visit the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Mainport website.