The CTC provides the following American Heart Association courses:
 BLS for the Healthcare Provider
BLS Instructor Course
ACLS Provider Course
ACLS Renewal Course
ACLS Instructor Course
PALS Provider Course
PALS Renewal Course
PALS Instructor Course
Heartsaver CPR
Heartsaver AED
Heartsaver First Aid
Heartsaver First Aid Instructor
Heartsaver CPR in Schools
CPR for Family and Friends The CTC also offers the following non-AHA courses:
ENPC - Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course
TNCC - Trauma Nursing Core Course
Basic 12 Lead EKG Interpretation
Basic EKG Interpretation BLS for the Healthcare Provider
The BLS Healthcare Provider Course teaches the skills of CPR for victims of all ages (including ventilation with a barrier device, a bag-mask device, and oxygen), use of an AED on adults and children, and relief of FBAO in responsive and nonresponsive victims. The course is designed for healthcare providers who care for patients both in and out of hospital.
Target Participants: Healthcare providers such as physicians, nurses, paramedics, EMTs, respiratory therapists, physical and occupational therapists, physician assistants, residents, fellows, or medical or nursing students, aides, and other allied health personnel.
Course Length: 3.5 hours | | | | BLS Instructor Course
This course provides instructor candidates with the knowledge and skills necessary to teach Basic Life Support (BLS) courses for healthcare providers and lay rescuers. BLS Instructors may teach the BLS for Healthcare Providers and Heartsaver-level courses including Heartsaver CPR, Heartsaver AED, Heartsaver CPR in Schools, and CPR for Family and Friends.
Target Participants: Healthcare Providers who have completed the BLS for Healthcare Providers course and wish to teach the Basic Life Support courses. The instructor candidate must have a current BLS for the Healthcare Provider card and complete the Core Instructor Course.
Course Length: 16 hours | | ACLS Provider Course
The ACLS Provider Course is designed to teach providers the knowledge and skills needed to evaluate and manage the first 10 minutes of an adult VF/VT arrest. Students are expected to learn to manage 10 core ACLS cases: respiratory emergency, 4 types of cardiac arrest (simple VF/VT, complex VF/VT, PEA, and asystole), 4 types of prearrest emergencies (bradycardia, stable tachycardia, unstable tachycardia, and acute coronary syndromes), and stroke.
Course Prerequisites:
• Current BLS for the Healthcare Provider Card
• Completion of a Basic EKG course or a background and understanding of EKG interpretation
Target Participants: Emergency, intensive care, or critical care personnel; emergency medical providers such as physicians, nurses, EMTs, paramedics, and respiratory therapists; and other professionals who may need to respond to a cardiovascular emergency.
Course Length: 16 hours | | ACLS Renewal Course
The ACLS Renewal Course is a one-day review of the ACLS Provider Course and the skills and knowledge needed to evaluate and manage the first 10 minutes of an adult VF/VT arrest.
Target Participants: Healthcare providers who have successfully completed an ACLS Provider Course and have not been expired for more than 30 days.
Course Length: 8 hours | | ACLS Instructor Course
The ACLS Instructor course develops a student’s proficiency in teaching an ACLS provider course. The instructor’s proficiency includes the ability to setup an ACLS provider course and to teach and evaluate an ACLS Provider course student’s knowledge and skill proficiency in 10 core cases: respiratory arrest, witnessed VF treated with an AED, VF/pulse VT, asystole, PEA, acute coronary syndromes, bradycardia, unstable tachycardia, stable tachycardia, and acute stroke.
Target Participants: Licensed healthcare providers who wish to teach personnel staffing emergency, intensive care, or critical care departments; and emergency medical providers such as physicians, nurses, emergency technicians, paramedics, and respiratory therapists; and other professionals who may respond to a cardiovascular emergency. Also, instructor candidates must have a current ACLS Provider Card and complete the Core Instructor Course.
Course Length: 8 hours | | PALS Provider Course
The goal of the PALS Provider Course is to teach students how to recognize infants and children at risk for cardiopulmonary arrest, to provide students with strategies for preventing cardiopulmonary arrest in infants and children, and to teach students how to perform the cognitive and psychomotor skills for resuscitation and stabilizing infants and children in respiratory failure, shock, or cardiopulmonary arrest. Skills in bag-mask ventilation, management of airway, defibrillation and cardioversion, use of AEDs for children older than 1 year, and rhythm management are emphasized. A modular approach is provided.
Course Prerequisites:
• Current BLS for the Healthcare Provider Card
• Completion of a Basic EKG course or a background and understanding of EKG interpretation
Target Participants: Pediatricians, house staff, emergency physicians, family physicians, nurses, paramedics, respiratory therapists, and other healthcare providers who are responsible for responding to emergencies in infants and children.
Course Length: 12 hours | | PALS Renewal Course
The PALS Renewal Course is a one-day review of the PALS Provider Course and the skills and knowledge needed to evaluated and manage the pediatric patient.
Target Participants: Healthcare professionals who have successfully completed a PALS Provider Course and have not been expired for more than 30 days.
Course Length: 8 hours | | PALS Instructor Course
The PALS Instructor Course develops a student’s proficiency in teaching a PALS provider course. The PALS instructor’s proficiency includes the ability to teach and evaluate a student’s cognitive and psychomotor skills needed to resuscitate and stabilize infants and children in respiratory failure, shock, or cardiopulmonary arrest.
Target Participants: Licensed healthcare professionals who wish to teach pediatricians, house staff, emergency physicians, family physicians, nurses, paramedics, respiratory therapists, and other healthcare providers who are responsible for the well-being of infants and children. Instructor candidates must have a current PALS Provider Card and complete the Core Instructor Course.
Course Length: 8 hours | | Heartsaver CPR
The Heartsaver CPR course teaches CPR and relief of choking in the adult, child, and infant. Students learn to recognize the warning signs of a heart attack and stroke in adults and breathing difficulties in children.
Target Participants: Those with a duty to respond, such as police, airline personnel, security guards, and employees in the workplace; family members of patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death; and other rescuers who may need to learn CPR.
Course Length: 4 hours | | Heartsaver AED
The Heartsaver AED Course teaches the basic techniques of adult CPR and use of an AED. Child AED and infant/child CPR may be taught if students live or work in a setting where children are present. Students also learn to use barrier devices in CPR and give first aid for choking in the responsive victim. The course teaches how to recognize the signs of three major emergencies: heart attack, stroke, and choking.
Target Participants: Those with a duty to respond, such as police, airline personnel, security guards, and employees in the workplace; family members of patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death; and other rescuers who may need to learn how to operate an AED.
Course Length: 4 hours | | Heartsaver First Aid
The Heartsaver First Aid Course teaches rescuers to effectively recognize and treat adult emergencies in the critical first minutes until EMS personnel arrive. The Heartsaver First Aid with CPR and AED course provides a complete health and safety training solution for first aid, adult CPR, and AED. Optional modules include child CPR and AED, and infant CPR, and environmental emergencies.
Target Participants: Those with a duty to respond to emergencies in the workplace or community, as well as those who want to learn first aid, CPR, and AED skills.
Course Length: 8 hours | | Heartsaver First Aid Instructor
This course teaches the knowledge and skills to instruct and evaluate students in Heartsaver First Aid and Heartsaver First Aid with CPR and AED. Heartsaver First Aid Instructor candidates must complete the Heartsaver Instructor Course or the BLS Instructor Course.
Target Participants: BLS Instructors who wish to teach Heartsaver First Aid and Heartsaver First Aid with CPR and AED courses. The Heartsaver First Aid Instructor candidate must have a current BLS/Heartsaver Instructor Card and a current Heartsaver First Aid Card.
Course Length: 6 hours | | Heartsaver CPR in Schools
This course is designed to teach adult, child, and infant CPR to middle and high school students. The course presents information about the AHA adult and pediatric Chains of Survival, signs of heart attacks, signs of stroke, and signs of choking in adults. The course addresses signs of choking in children and infants, prevention of common causes of pediatric injuries, and reduction of SIDS. The course is organized in 40-minute blocks that can easily be integrated into a typical school class schedule.
Target Participants: Middle & high school students | | CPR for Family and Friends
CPR for Family and Friends is a CPR awareness program that teaches skills in CPR and relief of choking in the responsive victim. The course presents information about the AHA adult Chain of Survival and signs of heart attack, stroke, and choking in adults; information on the AHA pediatric Chain of Survival, signs of choking in infants and children, prevention of the most common fatal pediatric injuries, and reduction in the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.
Target Participants: School children and family members of patients at risk for sudden cardiac death, and those who want to learn rescue skills for loved ones.
Course Length: 4 hours | | ENPC - Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course
ENPC is a 16-hour course designed to provide core-level pediatric knowledge and psychomotor skills needed to care for pediatric patients in the emergency setting. The course presents a systematic assessment model, integrates the associated anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology, and identifies appropriate interventions. Triage categorization and prevention strategies are included in the course content. ENPC is taught using a variety of formats, including lectures and videotapes, and includes skill stations that encourage participants to integrate their psychomotor abilities into a patient situation in a risk-free setting. ENA's Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course provides participants the opportunity to strengthen and develop their pediatric emergency nursing skills while expanding their personal growth by collaborating with nurses from a variety of practice settings. ENPC brings together participants from various emergency department settings as well as nurses working in other specialties of nursing. | | TNCC - Trauma Nursing Core Courses
ENA developed and implemented the TNCC for national and international dissemination as a means of identifying a standardized body of trauma nursing knowledge. The TNCC (Provider) is a 16 or 20-hour course designed to provide the learner with cognitive knowledge and psychomotor skills. Nurses with limited emergency nursing clinical experience, who work in a hospital with limited access to trauma patients, or who need greater time at the psychomotor skill stations are encouraged to attend courses scheduled for the 20-hour format. The TNCC (Instructor) course is an 8-hour course designed to prepare nurses to become TNCC (Provider) Instructors. The nurse must have successfully completed the provider course prior to attending the Instructor course. The Instructor course emphasizes appropriate teaching strategies as well as correct evaluation methods.
Target Participants: The TNCC may be officially attended by registered nurses (RN's). Other health care providers may attend the course as observers. In order to maximize success in the TNCC (Provider), it is recommended that the participant have at least six months of clinical nursing experience in an emergency care setting. It is assumed that the course participant possesses generic nursing knowledge, has an understanding of emergency care terminology, and has familiarity with standard emergency equipment. | | Basic 12 Lead EKG Interpretation
This two-day course provides a practical understanding of the routine twelve lead EKG and assists the participant in developing a step-by-step method for interpreting twelve lead EKGs. In addition, the participant will be able to identify infarct patterns, axis deviations, patterns of hypertrophy and bundle branch blocks. Using a case study approach, the participant will practice interpretation of twelve lead EKGs. A brief review of the conduction system and coronary blood flow will be conducted at the beginning of the course; however, the participant must have had a course in interpreting dysrhythmias and have a basic working knowledge of a twelve lead EKG.
| | Basic EKG Interpretation
This 20-hour course is designed to assist the healthcare provider in recognizing basic EKG dysrhythmias. There are no prerequisites for the course as the course includes basic anatomy and physiology as well as underlying pathophysiology as it relates to EKG rhythm recognition. Cardiac rhythms include: Sinus Rhythms, Atrial Rhythms, Junctional Rhythms, Ventricular Rhythms, AV Blocks, and Paced Rhythms. Successful participants will be given a Basic EKG Recognition Certificate.
Target Participants: Designed for nurses, EMTs, paramedics, student nurses, EKG Monitor Technicians, and other allied health personnel wishing to master the skill of Basic EKG recognition.
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