ACLS Provider Course

Course Description
The ACLS Provider Course provides the knowledge and skills needed to evaluate and manage the first 10 minutes of an adult ventricular fibrillation/ventricular tachycardia (VF/VT) arrest. Providers are expected to learn to manage 10 core ACLS cases: a respiratory emergency, four  types of cardiac arrest (simple VF/VT, complex VF/VT, PEA and asystole), four types of prearrest emergencies (bradychardia, stable tachycardia, unstable tachycardia and acute coronary syndromes) and stroke.

Course Length: Renewal course 4 1/2 - 6 hours    Provider course 2 day 12 hours

Intended Audience
Personnel staffing emergency, intensive care or critical care departments; emergency medical providers such as physicians, nurses, emergency technicians, paramedics, respiratory therapists and other professionals who may respond to a cardiovascular emergency.

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.dent

Initial Provider Course requires approximately 10-12 hours to complete, including skills practice and skills testing. Renewal Course requires approximately 5-6 hours, including skills practice and skills testing.

*course time based on 1 instructor: 6 student: 2 manikins

Classroom-based (instructor and video, with skills conducted throughout)

Upon successful course completion, including demonstration of 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, students receive an ACLS course completion card, valid for two years.

Materials:                                                                                     

  •  ECC Handbook, Strongly Recommended
  •  ACLS Provider Manual, Required  or  ACLS Text, Reference

Card Type: Course completion

Written/Skills Exam: Required for completion card

Average cost $125.00 renewal  $225.00 2 day provider call for current pricing

The American Heart Association strongly promotes knowledge
and proficiency in BLS, ACLS, and PALS and has developed
instructional materials for this purpose. Use of these materials
in an educational course does not represent course
sponsorship by the American Heart Association.

Any fees charged for such a course, except for a portion of fees needed
for AHA course materials, do not represent income to the
Association.

301-842-2522

Min. of 6 students for renewals and 8 for provider

We accept All Major credit cards                                                

 

Home