CPRAEDPro

CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer

Purpose: To teach those with a duty to act (professional rescuers) the skills needed to respond appropriately
to breathing and cardiac emergencies. This includes the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) to
care for a victim of cardiac arrest.

Prerequisites: None

Learning Objectives:

�� Identify the responsibilities and characteristics of a professional rescuer.

�� List the series of events that occur when the emergency medical services (EMS) system is activated.

�� Understand legal considerations that affect a professional rescuer.

�� Recognize and provide appropriate care for breathing emergencies, including cardiac arrest, and other life-threatening
injuries and illnesses.

�� Demonstrate how to properly remove disposable gloves.

�� Demonstrate how to perform an initial assessment.

�� Demonstrate how to perform rescue breathing (adult, child and infant).

�� Demonstrate how to use a BVM with two rescuers.

�� Demonstrate how to care for an obstructed airway (adult, child and infant).

�� Describe when and how to use an AED.

�� Demonstrate how to give CPR (adult, child and infant).

�� Demonstrate how to give two-rescuer CPR (adult, child and infant).

�� Demonstrate how to use an AED in cardiac arrest (adult and child).

�� Demonstrate how to use an AED when CPR is in progress (adult and child).