CPR & AED

NKEMS’ CPR classes include:

• Use of multiple CPR manikins – provides more hands on experience (usual student to manikin ratio is 1:1)
• Relief of airway obstruction
• Signs and symptoms of Heart Attack and Stroke
• Introduction of the Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
• American Heart Association two-year certification
• American Safety and Health Institute two-year certification

Heartsaver is a 2 hour Adult and Pediatric course. The primary goal of the Heartsaver course is to provide lay rescuers with the skills they need to respond to common life threatening emergencies such as respiratory, cardiac arrest and foreign body airway obstruction.

Heartsaver Automated External Defibrillation is a 2 hour Adult and Pediatric CPR/AED course. This course was developed to support the growing movement toward public access defibrillation. This course teaches in an integrated fashion.

Healthcare Provider CPR is a 4 hour Adult, Pediatric, Infant and AED CPR course. This course is designed for the professional healthcare provider including but not limited to physicians, nurses, paramedics, EMT’s, respiratory therapist, physical therapist, dentists and staff, physician’s assistants, nursing students, nursing assistance, and other allied health personnel.