Basic Life Support (BLS) for Adults and Paediatrics – BLS05

Why do our customers choose us?

We regularly deliver Basic Life Support (BLS) training for healthcare providers, schools, childcare settings, community organisations, and other workplaces where staff may need to respond quickly to a medical emergency. Our practical approach helps delegates develop the confidence to provide immediate care for adults, children, and infants while waiting for the emergency services to arrive.

Our trainers combine recognised adult teaching qualifications with practical experience gained in nursing, the armed forces, emergency services, voluntary aid organisations, and other operational environments. Their first-hand experience allows them to explain not only the correct techniques, but also how they are applied in genuine emergency situations.

They have gained their hands-on basic life support experience from a variety of different backgrounds over many years including nursing, armed forces, emergency services, hospitality, Voluntary Aid Societies, as well as other industry sectors before becoming qualified instructors.

This session can be combined with other resuscitation related courses such as Oxygen Administration and / or Suction training

Teaching 18,000 delegates a year, Acorn Health & Safety offer training to individuals, groups and entire staff teams. We are committed to providing excellent training delivered in a relaxed, yet informative style.

How do we approach basic life support for adults and paediatrics training?

Our course programme employs a variety of teaching techniques to meet the needs of individual delegates and includes the following when responding to adults, children and infants:

• Recognising a casualty in a critical condition
• The unconscious casualty
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Management of a choking casualty
• Use of pocket masks and face shields
• Safety considerations
• AED (Automated External Defibrillator) Pad positioning
• Practical use of AED
• Combining AED use with CPR

Owing to the practical nature of this course a basic level of general fitness is required.  Delegates must be physically able to carry out the procedures detailed in the course outline. Should you have any questions relating to the accessibility of this course please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

This course is of 3 1/2 hours duration.

What should you expect from Acorn Health & Safety?

We’ll provide delegates with a variety of printed course materials including workbooks and handouts.  On successful completion of this course delegates will receive a printed course certificate.

Post course our team of consultants and trainers are available to answer any questions you might have. You’ll also receive an automatic reminder prior to course expiry.

Our ‘basic life support for adults and paediatric’ course is just one of over 60 courses we offer.  Acorn Health & Safety provides training and consultancy in first aid, fire safety, food safety, manual handling, healthcare training and health and safety.

We can provide a wide variety of accredited or tailor-made courses, these can be ‘in-house’ or ‘open’ programmes.

Our ‘in-house’ course programmes are the most cost effective option if you’ve a number of staff requiring training, and in many cases can be adapted to include reference to local policy, practice and documentation.  These courses can be delivered either at any suitable venue or you can hire our purpose-built training centre located in Warmley, Bristol, whichever is best suited to your needs.

We also run a rolling programme of ‘open courses’ which are particularly suited for individuals, organisations that only have a few delegates or those looking to release small groups of staff at a time.

Please contact us to discuss all of your training needs so we can advise the most suitable and cost effective solution.