CPR for Family and Friends Course

This course is designed for family members or friends of patients with heart disease. The course is video-based and includes skills demonstration, practice and instructor-led practice sessions. A participation card is given at the end of this course. The course can be taught as two separate modules, each 2 hours in length. You can sign up for one or both modules.

• Adult Module
  This module presents information about the signs of heart attack, cardiac arrest, stroke, and what you need to do to provide early treatment. This module trains participants in the skills for adult one-rescuer CPR and foreign body airway obstruction management for the responsive victim.

• Pediatric Module
  This module presents information on the common causes of infant and child cardiac arrest, injury prevention, and the pediatric chain of survival. This module trains participants in the skills for infant and child one-rescuer CPR and foreign body airway obstruction management for the responsive infant and child victim.

Pediatric Heartsaver
Infant/Child CPR & Pediatric First Aid Course

This course is designed for day care providers, babysitters, parents, or for anyone who works with infants and children. The course is video-based and includes skills demonstration, practice, and instructor-led practice sessions. The course can be taught as two separate modules, each 2 hours in length. You can sign up for one or both modules.

• CPR MODULE
  The course presents information on the common causes of infant and child cardiac arrest, injury prevention, and the pediatric chain of survival. The course trains participants in the skills for infant and child one-rescuer CPR, foreign body airway obstruction and what to do to provide early treatment.

• FIRST AID MODULE
  This module presents information on injury assessment, identifying and caring for injuries and illnesses commonly seen in early childhood years including bleeding, shock, and medical emergencies.

A course completion card is provided to participants at the end of the course if they successfully complete the written examination. This course meets the "Massachusetts Office for Child Care Services" licensing requirements if taken with the Pediatric CPR module.