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CPR2U offers Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (BLS), Heartsaver CPR AED First Aid, and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) courses, as well as ECG/EKG courses, and other classes as noted:

Advanced Cardiac Life Support

This AHA course is designed for advanced healthcare providers in enhanced cardiac care.

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.

Intended 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.

Please note:  To attend this course, you must have already taken a New Provider course in the last two years, or have taken a renewal course in the last two years, to take this course. If you have not, or if you need ACLS for the first time, visit our website and sign up for a New Provider course, or call (520) 400-8204 to sign up for a New Provider course, instead of signing up for this class.

There is a mandatory pre-test for this course. On page ii of your ACLS manual, at the bottom, is a code. Enter that code on to http://ahainstructornetwork.americanheart.org/AHAECC/ecc.jsp?pid=ahaecc.studentlanding for the pretest, and bring a print out of your results, along with your ACLS manual, to the course with you.

The American Heart Association requires that all students have the ACLS manual for class. The manual can be purchased from:

Class starts promptly at the listed start time. Please arrive 10-15 minutes before class is scheduled to start, so that you may sign in and the instructor can go over any administrative information that needs to be covered. All students must be in class by 15 minutes after class start time. Any student who is not in class by then must reschedule their course. No refunds will be issued.

ACLS Skills Check Parts 2 & 3

This an American Heart Association skills session (Parts 2 & 3) for individuals who have completed the AHA ACLS online Part 1. Student must bring certificate to skills session. Skills session takes 30 minutes to complete.

No refunds will be issued for missing class.

BLS for Healthcare Providers

The American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers 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.

Intended Audience: 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.

The American Heart Association requires that all students have the BLS for Healthcare Provider manual for class. The manual can be purchased from:

Class starts promptly at the listed start time. Please arrive 10-15 minutes before class is scheduled to start, so that you may sign in and the instructor can go over any administrative information that needs to be covered. All students must be in class by 15 minutes after class start time. Any student who is not in class by then must reschedule their course. No refunds will be issued.

BLS for Healthcare Providers Skill Checkoff (Part 2 & 3)

This an American Heart Association skills session (Parts 2 & 3) for individuals who have completed the AHA BLS online Part 1. Student must bring certificate to skills session. Skills session takes 30 minutes to complete. No refunds will be issued for missed classes.

HeartSaver CPR AED and First Aid

This American Heart Association course teaches basic CPR AED and First Aid skills.
Heartsaver  First Aid CPR AED is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills needed to respond to and manage a first aid, choking or sudden cardiac arrest emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services (EMS) arrives. 

This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory or other requirements. If you are a healthcare provider, you will want to sign up for the BLS for Healthcare Providers course instead.

Students learn skills such as how to treat adult victims for bleeding, sprains, broken bones, shock, breathing problems, seizures, and other first aid emergencies, in addition to CPR and AED use.

The American Heart Association requires that all students have the course manual for class. The manual can be purchased from:

Class starts promptly at the listed start time. Please arrive 10-15 minutes before class is scheduled to start, so that you may sign in and the instructor can go over any administrative information that needs to be covered. All students must be in class by 15 minutes after class start time. Any student who is not in class by then must reschedule their course. No refunds will be issued.

HeartSaver First Aid

This American Heart Association Heartsaver  First Aid Course is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services (EMS) arrives.

This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in first aid to meet job, regulatory or other requirements. If you are a healthcare provider, you will want to sign up for the BLS for Healthcare Providers course instead.

First aid basics (including scene safety, finding the problem, calling for help and more) Medical emergencies (including actions for choking, breathing problems, shock and more) Injury emergencies (including actions for bleeding, broken bones, burns and more) Environmental emergencies (including actions for bites and stings, and temperature-related and poison emergencies).

This class covers only the First Aid portion of the course, for students who already have or do not need CPR AED as well. If you need both, please enroll in the Heartsaver CPR AED and First Aid course, above.

The American Heart Association requires that all students have the course manual for class. The manual can be purchased from:

Class starts promptly at the listed start time. Please arrive 10-15 minutes before class is scheduled to start, so that you may sign in and the instructor can go over any administrative information that needs to be covered. All students must be in class by 15 minutes after class start time. Any student who is not in class by then must reschedule their course. No refunds will be issued.

Pediatric Advanced Life Support

This American Heart Association course gives advanced health care providers skills to better recognize and treat critically ill infants and children.

The goal of the Pediatric Advanced Life Support Course is to provide the learner with:

  1. Information needed to recognize infants and children at risk for cardiopulmonary arrest
  2. Information and strategies needed to prevent cardiopulmonary arrest in infants and children
  3. The cognitive and psychomotor skills needed to resuscitate and stabilize infants and children in respiratory failure, shock or cardiopulmonary arrest.

Intended Audience: Pediatricians, house staff, emergency physicians, family physicians, nurses, paramedics, respiratory therapists, and other healthcare providers who are responsible for the well-being of infants and children.

Please note:  To attend this course, you must have already taken a New Provider course in the last two years, or have taken a renewal course in the last two years, to take this course. If you have not, or if you need PALS for the first time, visit our website listing for New Provider courses, or call (520) 400-8204 to sign up for a New Provider course, instead of signing up for this class.

There is a mandatory pre-test for this course. On page ii of your PALS manual, at the bottom, is a code. Enter that code on to http://heart.org/eccstudent for the pretest, and bring a print out of your results, along with your PALS manual, to the course with you.

The American Heart Association requires that all students have the PALS manual for class. The manual can be purchased from:

Class starts promptly at the listed start time. Please arrive 10-15 minutes before class is scheduled to start, so that you may sign in and the instructor can go over any administrative information that needs to be covered. All students must be in class by 15 minutes after class start time. Any student who is not in class by then must reschedule their course. No refunds will be issued.

Pediatric Advanced Life Support--New Provider

This American Heart Association course gives advanced health care providers skills to better recognize and treat critically ill infants and children.

The goal of the Pediatric Advanced Life Support Course is to provide the learner with:

  1. Information needed to recognize infants and children at risk for cardiopulmonary arrest
  2. Information and strategies needed to prevent cardiopulmonary arrest in infants and children
  3. The cognitive and psychomotor skills needed to resuscitate and stabilize infants and children in respiratory failure, shock or cardiopulmonary arrest.

Intended Audience: Pediatricians, house staff, emergency physicians, family physicians, nurses, paramedics, respiratory therapists, and other healthcare providers who are responsible for the well-being of infants and children.

Please note:  This is the New Provider course. If you have never taken PALS before, or if it has been more than two years since you took a refresher, this is the course you need.

There is a mandatory pre-test for this course. On page ii of your PALS manual, at the bottom, is a code. Enter that code on to http://heart.org/eccstudent for the pretest, and bring a print out of your results, along with your PALS manual, to the course with you.

The American Heart Association requires that all students have the PALS manual for class. The manual can be purchased from:

This course covers quite a lot of material, and it is strongly recommended that all students take the time to study the materials before class.

Class starts promptly at the listed start time. Please arrive 10-15 minutes before class is scheduled to start, so that you may sign in and the instructor can go over any administrative information that needs to be covered. All students must be in class by 15 minutes after class start time. Any student who is not in class by then must reschedule their course. No refunds will be issued.

PALS Skills Checkoff (Part 2 & 3)

This an American Heart Association skills session (Parts 2 & 3) for individuals who have completed the AHA PALS online Part 1. Student must bring certificate to skills session. Skills session takes 30 minutes to complete.

Basic ECG

This course is a Basic ECG Course, introducing the concepts of the ECG and the electrical conduction system of the heart. Topics covered include: 

  • Basic cardiac anatomy, physiology, and electrophysiology,
  • Normal and Abnormal cardiac muscle and electrical activity;
  • The ECG and its relationship to cardiac electrical conduction;
  • 3-lead ECG lead placement;
  • In-depth explanation of the ECG waveforms;
  • Heart rhythm analysis using 3-lead ECG;
  • Identifying and classifying heart rhythms;
  • Appropriate treatment options for various heart rhythms

This course is offered as a three-session course, and students must attend all three sessions to successfully complete the course. In addition, there is a manual that each student must purchase as part of the course.

12-lead ECG

CPR2U's 12-lead ECG course builds upon the foundations of the Basic ECG course, adding the ability to perform, interpret, and understand 12-lead ECGs to the student's repertoire. Additional topics covered include:

  • Obtaining the 12-lead ECG, including lead placement and troubleshooting;
  • Interpretation of the 12-lead ECG waveform, including the clinical significance of the rhythms;
  • Identification of the anatomical locations of the 12-lead ECG in reference to cardiac anatomy and electrophysiology, and their importance to clinical assessment of abnormal ECGs, including identifying ST-Elevated Myocardial Infarction (STEMI); and
  • Treatment options for various rhythms identified on the 12-lead ECG

among others. Prior experience with 3-lead ECG is essential to successful completion of this course, and it is assumed each student registering will have either already taken a 3-lead ECG course, or has taken CPR2U's predecessor class, Basic ECG. 

Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)

Completing the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) course involves several steps.

  1. The student studies the information contained in the 7th edition textbook in either print or e-book format. The book is available through AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) or sellers like Amazon. You will need the book for reference for the online examination.
  2. After reading/reviewing the book, you will register and take the online examination. You can find instructions for the registration process in the student manual. You have 45 days to complete the examination once you begin.
  3. Once you successfully complete the online examination, you have 90 days to complete the in person skills portion at one of CPR2U Training Center. You must bring your examination completion certificate for admission to the NRP course.
  4. You will receive an e-card through the health stream website after completion of the instructor lead event.
  5. You will be required to pay $35.00 to access the nrp exam.

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