CPR Training
When a heart stops pumping blood, the clock starts. CPR keeps oxygen moving to the brain until a defibrillator or paramedics arrive, and it is the single most important thing a bystander can do.
Why CPR Matters
Sudden cardiac arrest is not a heart attack. It is an electrical failure that stops the heart from pumping blood without warning, and it is typically fatal without immediate help. More than 350,000 cardiac arrests happen outside a hospital every year in the United States, and about three out of four of them happen in a home, which means the person most likely to need you is someone you know.
Survival is a race against the clock. Brain injury begins within minutes of blood flow stopping, and national survival to hospital discharge sits at roughly 9%. The problem is rarely the ambulance. It is the gap before the ambulance arrives, when nobody nearby knows what to do.
That gap is what CPR fills. Chest compressions keep oxygen-carrying blood moving to the brain and heart, buying time until a defibrillator or EMS crew takes over. CPR started immediately can double or triple a person's chance of survival, yet only about 40% of victims ever receive it. Training is the whole difference between a bystander and a rescuer.
Survival is a race against the clock. Brain injury begins within minutes of blood flow stopping, and national survival to hospital discharge sits at roughly 9%. The problem is rarely the ambulance. It is the gap before the ambulance arrives, when nobody nearby knows what to do.
That gap is what CPR fills. Chest compressions keep oxygen-carrying blood moving to the brain and heart, buying time until a defibrillator or EMS crew takes over. CPR started immediately can double or triple a person's chance of survival, yet only about 40% of victims ever receive it. Training is the whole difference between a bystander and a rescuer.
What You'll Learn
• How to recognize sudden cardiac arrest and get help moving within seconds
• High-quality chest compressions: hand position, depth, rate, and full recoil
• Rescue breaths and the correct compression-to-breath ratio
• Adult, child, and infant CPR, and how the technique changes for each
• Choking relief for a responsive and an unresponsive victim
• Working with a partner and switching rescuers without losing compressions
• How CPR hands off to an AED and to the arriving EMS crew
You practice on manikins until the movement is automatic. Reading about compressions is not the same as doing them, and under stress people fall back on what their hands already know.
• High-quality chest compressions: hand position, depth, rate, and full recoil
• Rescue breaths and the correct compression-to-breath ratio
• Adult, child, and infant CPR, and how the technique changes for each
• Choking relief for a responsive and an unresponsive victim
• Working with a partner and switching rescuers without losing compressions
• How CPR hands off to an AED and to the arriving EMS crew
You practice on manikins until the movement is automatic. Reading about compressions is not the same as doing them, and under stress people fall back on what their hands already know.
Who Should Take This Class
No medical background is required, and most of our students have none. We train parents and grandparents, coaches and athletic trainers, teachers and childcare providers, gym and pool staff, restaurant and retail employees, church volunteers, and workplace safety teams.
Many employers require certification outright. OSHA also expects a trained responder on site at workplaces where serious injuries are possible and professional medical help is more than three to four minutes away.
Certification lasts two years. Skills fade faster than that, so we keep the class hands-on and give you enough repetitions that the response stays with you.
Many employers require certification outright. OSHA also expects a trained responder on site at workplaces where serious injuries are possible and professional medical help is more than three to four minutes away.
Certification lasts two years. Skills fade faster than that, so we keep the class hands-on and give you enough repetitions that the response stays with you.
Get CPR Certified
Classes are taught in person and hands-on. CPR, AED, and First Aid work together in a real emergency, so we teach them the same way, as one response rather than three separate subjects.
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