ACLS builds on the foundation of lifesaving basic life support (BLS) skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR. This advanced course highlights the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication; systems of care; and recognition of and intervention in cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS).

The ACLS course is designed for healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies. This includes personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care, and critical care units -- such as physicians, nurses, and paramedics -- as well as others who need an ACLS course completion card for job or other requirements.

Before taking the ACLS course, students must pass the online ACLS Precourse Self-Assessment with a score of 70% or higher. This test is part of the ACLS student Web site (access granted with purchase of the ACLS Provider Manual).

After successfully completing the ACLS course, students should be able to:

• apply the BLS, Primary, and Secondary Assessments sequence for a systematic evaluation of adult patients
• perform prompt, high-quality BLS, including prioritizing early chest compressions and integrating early automated external defibrillator (AED) use
• recognize and perform early management of respiratory arrest
• discuss early recognition and management of ACS and stroke, including appropriate disposition
• recognize and perform early management of bradyarrhythmias and tachyarrhythmias that may result in cardiac arrest or complicate resuscitation outcomes
• recognize and perform early management of cardiac arrest until termination of resuscitation or transfer of care, including immediate post-cardiac-arrest care
• model effective communication as a member or leader of a high-performance team
• evaluate resuscitative efforts during a cardiac arrest through continuous assessment of CPR quality, monitoring the patient’s physiologic response, and delivering real-time feedback to the team
• recognize the impact of team dynamics on overall team performance
• discuss how the use of a rapid response team or medical emergency team may improve patient outcomes
• define systems of care.

For successful course completion, students must:

• demonstrate skills competency in all learning stations
• pass the high-quality BLS skills test
• pass the bag-mask ventilation with OPA/NPA insertion skills test
• pass the Megacode test
• pass the ACLS exam with a score of 84% or higher.

Upon successful completion of all requirements, students receive an ACLS course completion card.

Key Features and Benefits

This manual:

• contains all the information students need to successfully complete the ACLS course when taught in a classroom format
• is ideal for use as a reference tool before and after the course
• provides students access to a Web site containing mandatory and supplemental information and reference materials, including the ACLS Precourse Self-Assessment, to help them successfully complete the course
• comes with the ACLS Precourse Preparation Checklist Card
• comes with the Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Pocket Reference Card Set, which includes:
  • ACLS Cardiac Arrest, Arrhythmias, and Their Treatment
  • ACLS Acute Coronary Syndromes and Stroke

The American Heart Association's Advancerd Cardiac Life Support course is offered both in the classroom or online. Once you complete all requirements, you will be issued a course completion card on the same day you complete the course.

 

Course completion cards are valid for 2 years from the day of the course.

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In the event you do not arrive with in 15 minutes after your scheduled course time, or if you do not cancel or re-schedule your course or skills practice and testing session within the allotted time stated above, YOU SHALL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR ANY REFUNDS. "NO EXCEPTIONS".  If you would like to reschedule the course or skills practice and testing session, you will have to re-register for the course and pay all course fees. No refund will be given for any opened or used product or course materials. All E-Learning Course registrations are final and they are not eligible for any refunds.​​​​

 

 

 

 

 

 

* THE REQUIRED ACLS STUDENT MANUALS IS SOLD SEPERATLY.

All students must have the current appropriate AHA course textbook for their individual use before, during, and after the course. Students should review the textbook before class and have immediate access to their own copy afterward as a reference and review tool. The only exception to this policy is the student who is a healthcare professional who will have access to the textbook for individual study reference before, during, and after the course at his or her facility. A library/archive for healthcare professionals is acceptable but does not meet the requirement for lay programs.

By clicking on the register now button, you acknowlege that you have read, understand and agree to all of the policies listed on this page. All E-Learning Course registrations are final and they are not eligible for any refunds. ​​​​If you would like to cancel or re-schedule a live course or a skills practice and testing registration and receive a full refund, you must contact us during normal business hours by 4PM Eastern Standard Time, NO LATER THAN THE DAY BEFORE YOUR COURSE, SKILLS SESSION OR COURSE CHALLENGE. If you do not ciontact us with in the alloted time, YOU SHALL NOT BE ELGIABLE FOR ANY REFUNDS.

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION TEXTBOOK POLICY

Each student must have the current AHA ACLS course textbook for their individual use before, during, and after the course. Students should review the textbook before class and have immediate access to their own copy afterward as a reference and review tool. The only exception to this policy is the student who is a healthcare professional who will have access to the textbook for individual study reference before, during, and after the course at his or her facility. A library/archive for healthcare professionals is acceptable but does not meet the requirement for lay programs.

Students ARE ALLOWED to use their textbook during mega-code testing and the written exam.

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