Focus and Skills
Focus: Performing effective, high-quality life support.
Key Skills:
- Recognizing an unresponsive person.
- Learning how and when to call emergency services (like 911 or local emergency numbers).
- Basic situational awareness and safety checks.
- Learning the simple Check-Call-Compress algorithm.
- Practicing rhythm and hand positioning.
- Achieving initial chest compression techniques on training manikins or practice mats.
- Delivering hard and fast chest compressions with correct depth and rate.
- Minimizing interruptions in compressions.
- Ventilation techniques and introduction to Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), depending on local program guidelines.
- Placing a patient in the recovery position.