SHA Basic life Support Provider (BLS) Course

This manual aims to provide the target participants the knowledge and skills as following:

• Recognize the importance of Basic life support training.
• Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on chain of survival either in hospital or out of hospital cardiac arrest.
• Overview of anatomy and physiology of cardiopulmonary system.
• Recognize the signs of cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest and choking.
• How to Perform high-quality CPR for adults, children and infants.
• Recognize the differences of CPR skills between single or multiple rescuers for adults,

children and infants.

• Describe the importance of early use of an AED and how to operate it.
• Describe the components of resuscitation team (members, roles and responsibilities and team dynamics).
• Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants.