AHA HeartSaver First Aid

Heartsaver courses are designed for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for job, regulatory (for example, OSHA), or other requirements. These courses can also be taken by anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting. For many Heartsaver courses, students receive a course completion card that is valid for 2 years.

Heartsaver First Aid
This course teaches students critical skills to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services arrives. Students learn duties and responsibilities of first aid rescuers; first aid actions for medical emergencies, including severe choking, heart attack, and stroke; and skills for handling injury and environmental emergencies, including external bleeding, broken bones and sprains, and bites and stings. This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in first aid to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.

Course lasts 3 hours and the cost is $50.

Heartsaver First Aid CPR & AED
This course covers all Heartsaver First Aid material in addition to choking relief, AED use, ventilations, and CPR in adults, children, and infants. This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in first aid to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.

Course lasts 7.5 hours and the cost is $80.

Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR AED
This course covers all Heartsaver First Aid material in addition to choking relief, AED use, ventilations, and CPR in adults, children, and infants. This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training and is designed to meet the regulatory requirements for child care workers in all 50 U.S. states. 

Course lasts 7.5 hours and the cost is $80.


After successfully completing the First Aid course, students are able to:

  • List the priorities, roles, and responsibilities of first aid rescuers
  • Describe the key steps in first aid
  • Remove protective gloves
  • Find the problem
  • Describe the assessment and first aid actions for the following life-threatening conditions: heart attack, difficulty breathing, choking, severe bleeding, shock, and stroke
  • Use an epinephrine pen
  • Control bleeding and bandaging
  • Recognize elements of common injuries
  • Recognize elements of common illnesses
  • Describe how to find information on preventing illness and injury
  • Recognize the legal questions that apply to first aid rescuers
The First Aid CPR AED course teaches all First Aid skills, plus:
  • Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and early defibrillation
  • Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
  • Use an AED on adults, children*, and infants*
  • Perform high-quality CPR on adults, children*, and infants*
  • Provide effective ventilations on adults, children*, and infants*
  • Perform as an effective team member in a multi-rescuer resuscitation
  • Relieve choking in adults, children*, and infants*
*optional modules
The Pediatric First Aid CPR AED course teaches all First Aid skills, plus:
  • Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and early defibrillation
  • Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
  • Use an AED on adults*, children, and infants
  • Perform high-quality CPR on adults*, children, and infants
  • Provide effective ventilations on adults*, children, and infants
  • Perform as an effective team member in a multi-rescuer resuscitation
  • Relieve choking in adults*, children, and infants

*optional modules

Details

Courses have a minimum class size of 6 and require reservations. Books are provided the day of the course. 

 

Contact Us

For more information and reservations...

Stuart Crawford
stuart.crawford@louisville.edu
502-852-2219