Course Description

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Alison



Learn how to save someone’s life in a crisis with this free online certificate course on basic life support (BLS). This course covers the basic steps in administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and basic life support measures (BLS) to adults, children, and infants, depending on how many rescuers are available. We explain various first-aid maneuvers, the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs), and how to open patients’ airways. The course qualifies you to gain international accreditation that signals your ability to save lives in a crisis.


Online Course
Course Code 2971
College Name Alison
Course Category
Course Type Online Learning
Course Qualification CPD Certificate
Course Location Online Course
Delivery mode
Course Fee Free
Course Duration 4-5 hours
Entry Requirements Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world's largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.
Career Path In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Describe the details of the 2020-2025 guideline changes in basic life support • Discuss how to perform adult mouth-to-mask ventilation • Outline ‘bag-mask’ ventilation in two-rescuer CPR for adults • Outline the steps of performing CPR on children • Explain the one-rescuer and the two-rescuer BLS for infants between 0 to 12 months old • Identify the AED steps for children and infants • Paraphrase the adult ‘chain of survival’ and its pediatric counterpart • Distinguish between one-rescuer and the two-rescuer BLS for children • Illustrate how to open a child’s airway • Explain how to deliver mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing • Explain how to perform mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing on adults and older children • Explain how to perform mouth-to-mouth and nose-rescue breathing for infants
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