Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

·         Course Duration:      Initial Certification:    Two Days (sixteen hours) 

Re-certification:        One Day (eight hours)

·         Course Tuition:         Initial Certification:    $200.00

Re-certification:        $100.00

·         Course Description:  The Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course presents the skills and didactic information needed to manage a cardiac arrest, events that may lead to cardiac arrest and events that follow cardiac arrest. The core of this course is the evaluation and management of the first 10 minutes of a witnessed, adult, ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest. Other essentials of the course are contained in the 10 core ACLS cases: respiratory arrest, pulseless ventricular fibrillation/ventricular tachycardia (VF/VT) treated with an AED, VF/VT refractory to initial defibrillation, pulseless electrical activity, asystole, acute coronary syndromes, bradycardia, stable tachycardia, unstable tachycardia, and acute ischemic stroke.  Course tuition includes the cost of the text book.

Persons who successfully complete the knowledge and skills evaluations in accordance with the curriculum of this AHA course are eligible to receive the ACLS Course completion card.

Key Features and Benefits

This classroom- and video-based, instructor-led course builds on the foundation of lifesaving skills from the Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers course. In the ACLS course, skills are taught in large-group sessions and small-group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented. Manual includes information on:

• the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR
• team dynamics and communication
• systems of care
• immediate post-cardiac-arrest care
• airway management
• related pharmacology.

Eligibility for continuing education credit (English only):

• emergency medical services -- This continuing education activity is approved by American Heart Association, an organization accredited by the Continuing Education Coordinating Board for Emergency Medical Services (CECBEMS), for 5.25 Advanced CEHs, activity number 11-AMHA-F2-0127