Courses for the Public

The BLS Course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. 

• Full BLS Provider Course takes approximately 4.5 hours to complete, including skills practice and skills testing
• BLS Renewal Course takes approximately 3 hours to complete, including skills practice and testing 

This course will teach you to recognize cardiac arrest, get emergency care on the way quickly, and help a person until more advanced care arrives to take over. The course also covers adult choking and naloxone. This course can be taken in the classroom, or as a hybrid online class with an in-person skills demonstration. 

This course is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services arrives. Students learn duties and responsibilities of first aid rescuers; first aid actions for medical emergencies, including severe choking, heart attack, and stroke; and skills for handling injury and environmental emergencies, including external bleeding, broken bones and sprains, and bites and stings. 

This four-hour course is designed for individuals with little to no training in the management of traumatic injuries. It will include both lectures and hands-on training in a variety of bleeding control devices. The composition of an individual first aid kit for bleeding control will also be discussed. 

Prerequisite: Traumatic Injury Management 1 (TIM 1)

This course is a continuation of the Traumatic Injury Management 1 class. The hands-on application of skills acquired in the TIM 1 class will be tested in multiple scenarios under a variety of circumstances that you may find yourself in, which require the use of your training. Students will be able to build their own Individual First Aid Kits to mirror their current setup, or test out a new design to see its versatility. 

The Bleeding Control (BCon) course is designed for those who have little or no medical training but may be called upon to respond to and deliver trauma care and bleeding control prior to emergency medical services (EMS) arrival or in an austere environment