The American Heart Association’s Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Course builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS for Healthcare Providers skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR. Our ACLS AHA program will teach you to use the ACLS algorithms confidently. Never Forget 9-11 Foundation‘s program director has been teaching ACLS for more than twenty years and our staff has decades of additional experience for both in and out of hospital cardiac arrest cases.

This advanced, instructor-led classroom course highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care and immediate post-cardiac-arrest care.

The course also covers airway management and related pharmacology.  Throughout the course, skills are taught in large, group sessions and small, group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented.

Successful course completion starts with a pretest which will prepare you for the course. It also includes demonstrating 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 using the ACLS algorithm 2020 as provided by the American Heart Association.

Audience: The program 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. The AHA’s course is the premier resuscitation training program for healthcare providers. The evidence-based content and well-tested teaching methodology can dramatically improve the learning and retention of lifesaving skills.

Course length: Approximately 10 to 12 hours (Initial Course)

Approximately 5 to 6 hours (Renewal Course).

Upon successful completion, students receive an American Heart Association ACLS Provider Card, valid for two years.

A current provider manual is required to attend. If you do not own the updated version, you must purchase prior to class.

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