NHCPS Save a Life

AUGUST 20, 2024

BCLS vs BCLS […] The post BCLS vs BLS Certification: Key Differences and Choosing the Right One appeared first on SaveaLife.com. To help you learn what your basic life support certification options are and which one is best for you, consider the following details.

BLS

ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Background From its founding in 1881 to today, the American Red Cross has taught tens of millions of Americans first aid and other lifesaving skills, including CPR. It also offers a comprehensive “CPR for the Professional Rescuer” course. In 2015, it introduced Basic Life Support (BLS) training and certification for EMS personnel.

Life Support

EMDocs

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Opioid Overdose For patients in respiratory arrest, rescue breathing or bag-mask ventilation should be maintained until spontaneous breathing returns, and standard BLS, ALS, and/or pediatric ALS measures should continue if return of spontaneous breathing does not occur. No NAC or ascorbic acid. COR 1, LOE C-LD. COR 1, LOE C-EO.

Naloxone

The Overrun Podcast

MAY 23, 2024

The conversation covers topics such as compression-only CPR, the controversy surrounding head-up CPR, the use of band and piston-driven devices, and the potential of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (eCPR). The importance of good dispatch and patient selection is emphasized as key factors in improving outcomes.

CPR

NCOAE

AUGUST 12, 2022

Here, we present them in alphabetical order: ABC – Airway, Breathing and Circulation – “This is the Golden Rule of emergency medical professionals” AED – Automated External Defibrillator – The device that delivers electric shock to the heart of patients experiencing sudden cardiac arrest A-EMT – Advanced EMT ALS – Advanced Life Support Anaphylaxis— (..)

EMS

Paramedic Training Spot

DECEMBER 8, 2021

These prerequisites include maintaining a valid EMT-B certificate or higher, successfully completing a CAAHEP-accredited education program within the past 2 years, maintaining valid CPR-BLS credentials or their equivalent, and successfully completing the cognitive and psychomotor examination portions of the NREMT-P curriculum.

Paramedic

BoostPrep

APRIL 26, 2022

Question While performing one-person CPR on a patient, you should use a ratio for compressions to ventilation for the adult patient and a __ ratio for a child patient. Apply an AED Begin CPR Correct Incorrect Question 2 of 10 2. Provide two minutes of CPR prior to attaching the AED. Apply a nonrebreather at 15 lpm.

EMT

Paramedics Unlimited

APRIL 19, 2018

What is the difference between ALS and BLS Medical Care? In Basic Life Support (BLS) emergencies, a single EMS provider can not deliver optimum care, such as when trying to hold direct pressure on a bleeding wound, while preparing bandages, to stop bleeding.

BLS

EMT Training Station

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

It focuses on essential lifesaving skills, such as CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), controlling bleeding, and managing shock. EMTs are skilled in a variety of lifesaving techniques, such as performing CPR, controlling bleeding, managing fractures, and treating shock.

EMT

The Overrun

JULY 5, 2019

Since she was confused, she didn’t know where his paperwork was so the BLS agency that arrived began efforts for resuscitation. Each of the people on that BLS crew are career providers. A clinically primitive mindset; no heartbeat bad, CPR good, liability avoided. I’ve written about how we aren’t approaching death well before.

CPR

Paramedic Training Spot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Besides going over the basic lifesaving skill of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, or CPR, you will learn the legal side of medicine, such as HIPAA, and emergencies that bring not only the end, but a new start, to life. My first call was a CPR in progress. It’s watching life start, and trying to stop life from ending.

EMT

The Overrun

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We moved them onto the stretcher and brought them out to the ambulance so we could start CPR and using a BVM. We can’t start CPR on the stairs! I remember as we were bringing the patient out to the ambulance to do CPR, the family was standing in the doorway. It was the scariest thing I’ve ever seen. And I stressed over it.

EMS

Peter Canning

JUNE 28, 2025

We have been dispatched four times today, three for man down unresponsive, two of those for possibly not breathing, and one of them for CPR in progress. A BLS unit just called for a medic for seizures, but they dispatched someone else. I intercepted with a BLS crew for an unresponsive diabetic. His sugar was 32.

BLS