Life-Saving Specialty Courses

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Faithful Guardian Training Center - South Metro's courses are designed to build upon initial education programs and as enrichment. Course length varies with most courses averaging around 16 hours for completion. Certificate courses are recognized by the American Heart Association, National Association of EMTs, or other professional organizations. Course fees vary. 

Please contact the office for additional information. Courses offered:

• Heartsaver®  (CPR, AED, First Aid)
• BLS healthcare provider (BLS)
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

As an American Heart Association-authorized training center, our mission is to strengthen the Chain of Survival in the population we serve by providing high-quality, effective life-support training backed by the American Heart Association. 

The American Heart Association’s Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) Programs deliver a dynamic message of hope — the hope of saving lives. New treatments have improved the possibility of survival from cardiovascular emergencies, cardiac arrest, and stroke. These new treatments offer the hope of improved quality of life for people who suffer from these events. 

Increasing public awareness of the importance of early intervention and ensuring greater public access to defibrillation will save many lives. Faithful Guardian Training Center programs train more than 4,000 people every year by educating healthcare providers, caregivers, and the general public on how to respond to these emergencies. See below for detailed descriptions about our courses. Contact us today with any questions.

Heartsaver® Courses

Our Heartsaver® courses are for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card for the job, regulatory or other requirements. These courses are also designed to meet OSHA requirements. For many of our courses, students receive a course completion card that is valid for two years.

Heartsaver® (CPR First Aid AED) is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches adult CPR and AED use, as well as how to relieve choking on an adult. First Aid will also be covered in this course. This course teaches skills with AHA’s research-proven Practice-While-Watching (PWW) technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback, and guide the students’ learning of skills.

Most teachers, gym trainers, day care workers, foster parents, construction workers, and more require this course certification. If you are unsure of the exact course certification you are needing, please check with your employer. For more information or to enroll, contact us today.

Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers Classroom Course

The Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers Classroom Course is designed to provide a wide variety of healthcare professionals the ability to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, provide CPR, use an AED, and relieve choking in a safe, timely, and effective manner.

This course is for healthcare professionals who need to know how to perform CPR, as well as, other lifesaving skills, in a wide variety of in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings.

This course covers the following topics

• Critical concepts of high-quality CPR
  
• The American Heart Association Chain of Survival
• 1-rescuer CPR and AED for adult, child and infant
• 2-rescuer CPR and AED for adult, child, and infant
• Differences between adult, child, and infant rescue techniques
• Bag-mask techniques for adult, child, and infant
• Rescue breathing for adult, child, and infant
• Relief of choking for adult, child, and infant
• CPR with an advanced airway

Reach out to us today for more information or to enroll in this course.

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Provider Course

The Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Provider Course is a video-based, Instructor-led course designed to teach the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition, and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS).

This course is for healthcare professionals who need to know how to perform ACLS skills, as well as, other lifesaving skills, in a wide variety of in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings.

Course Content

• 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

Please contact FGTC for an ACLS course schedule.

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Provider Course

The Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Provider Course is a video-based, Instructor-led course that uses a series of simulated pediatric emergencies to reinforce the important concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation and team dynamics.

This course is for healthcare professionals who need to know how to perform PALS skills, as well as, other lifesaving pediatric skills, in a variety of in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings.

Course content

• High-quality child CPR 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
• Apply team dynamics
• Differentiation between respiratory distress and failure
• Early interventions for respiratory distress and failure
• Differentiation between compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock
• Early interventions for the treatment of shock
• Differentiation between unstable and stable patients with arrhythmias
• Clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
• Post–cardiac arrest management

For more information or to enroll in our specialty courses, get in touch with us today.