CPR and AED Awareness
How CPR and AEDs save lives under the 2025 Heart and Stroke Foundation guidelines: the chain of survival, recognizing cardiac arrest and agonal breathing, calling 9-1-1, high-quality compressions, breaths and hands-only CPR, how AEDs work and how to use them, children and infants, choking, special circumstances including naloxone, and workplace AED programs under provincial laws.
HSE-111 12 lessons · 4 h 56 min
Offered by HSM University · Safety Training
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Distinguish sudden cardiac arrest from a heart attack and explain each link of the 2025 chain of survival
- Recognize cardiac arrest quickly using responsiveness and breathing, including agonal breathing and seizure-like activity
- Activate emergency services, delegate tasks, work with a 9-1-1 dispatcher and explain Good Samaritan and AED liability protections in Canada
- Describe the elements of high-quality chest compressions and calculate rate, counts and chest compression fraction
- Explain when rescue breaths matter, how barrier devices are used and how the 30:2 cycle is timed
- Explain how AEDs analyze heart rhythms, which rhythms are shockable and why AEDs are safe
- Describe the steps for using an AED and adjustments for water, hair, implanted devices, patches, metal surfaces and children
- Describe how CPR differs for children and infants under the 2025 guidelines
- Respond to mild and severe choking in adults, children, infants, pregnant people and large adults, and when choking leads to cardiac arrest
- Adapt the response for drowning, opioid overdose and naloxone, pregnancy, hypothermia, trauma, electric shock and lightning
- Plan, maintain and review a workplace AED program under provincial laws and first aid regulations
- Coordinate a team response, give a handover, support survivors and responders, and identify next steps for certified training
Course content
12 lessons · 4 h 56 min total · final exam
- 1 Sudden cardiac arrest and the chain of survival 25 min · quiz
- 2 Recognizing cardiac arrest and agonal breathing 25 min · quiz
- 3 Calling for help, dispatcher-assisted CPR and getting an AED 25 min · quiz
- 4 High-quality chest compressions 24 min · quiz
- 5 Rescue breaths, barrier devices and hands-only CPR 24 min · quiz
- 6 How AEDs work 25 min · quiz
- 7 Using an AED and special situations 25 min · quiz
- 8 CPR for children and infants 24 min · quiz
- 9 Choking in adults, children and infants 24 min · quiz
- 10 Special circumstances: drowning, opioids, pregnancy, cold, trauma and electricity 25 min · quiz
- 11 Workplace AED programs and the law in Canada 26 min · quiz
- 12 Putting it together: team response, aftercare and capstone 24 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
How CPR and AEDs save lives under the 2025 Heart and Stroke Foundation guidelines: the chain of survival, recognizing cardiac arrest and agonal breathing, calling 9-1-1, high-quality compressions, breaths and hands-only CPR, how AEDs work and how to use them, children and infants, choking, special circumstances including naloxone, and workplace AED programs under provincial laws.