ACLS

AHA ACLS Provider

The American Heart Association’s ACLS Course builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS for Healthcare Providers skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR.  This advanced, instructor-led classroom course highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care and immediate post-cardiac-arrest care.  The ACLS course also covers airway management and related pharmacology.  In the ACLS Course, skills are taught in large, group sessions and small, group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented.  Successful course completion includes demonstrating skills competency in all learning stations and passing the CPR and AED skills test, bag-mask ventilation skills test, a Megacode test and a written test.  A current ACLS provider manual is required to attend. If you do not own the updated version, you must purchase before or the day of class.

Audience

ACLS is designed for healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest and other cardiovascular emergencies.  This includes personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units.  The AHA’s course is the premier ACLS training for healthcare providers.  The evidence-based content and well-tested teaching methodology can dramatically improve the learning and retention of lifesaving skills.
Course length: Approximately 10 hours.