Introduction

This comprehensive Heartsaver AED Course is designed to teach the Irish Heart Foundation and American Heart Association Heartsaver Defibrillation for the lay rescuer and first responder.

Approved course by the Irish Heart Foundation

The Irish Heart Foundation does not recommend or endorse any make or model of defibrillator but supports and promotes the use of defibrillators.

Now anyone can save a life

The course is multimedia based with practical instruction from qualified Irish Heart Foundation Instructors. All participants receive a comprehensive instruction pack of a CD with includes video clips of CPR and the use of an AED, this can be used for review at any time.

Time to defibrillation is the most critical factor in survival of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). If an AED is "on-site" within two minutes there is an 80% chance that the victim will survive. This is one of the reasons that survival rates improve in areas with active AED programmes. Remember, every minute that passes before defibrillation the survival rate reduces by 7-10 percent. Currently in Ireland the survivability rate for out of hospital cardiac arrest is 1%.

Up to recently in Ireland the AED was only used by Healthcare Professionals, but we now see "Public Access Defibrillation" programmes. For first response professionals like the fire and ambulance servers the AED is standard equipment. For schools, offices, shopping centres, factories, gyms, hotels and any public place, it's as vital as the fire extinguisher.

Course Details

Duration:

3 - 4 hours.

Prerequisites:

None.

Certificate:

Valid for 2 years by the Irish Heart Foundation.

Accreditation:

Irish Heart Foundation for CPR & & First Aid for Life.

Some of the Topics Covered