​BLS Renewal

Classroom Course with an American Heart Association Instructor

Register Online Below or Call: 1.877.531.2226

BLS Renewal Course Schedule

Classes held 7 days a week:
7:00AM
10:00AM
1:00PM
​3:00PM
​5:00PM
​7:00PM

BLS Renewal Course Cost

$60.00

BLS Renewal Course Length

1 Hour

• Practice-While-Watching Video Format Length: 30 minutes
• Exam Required: 30 minutes

*Based on a 1:1 Student/ Manikin Ratio

BLS Renewal Course Description

​​The BLS Renewal Course is for current BLS providers who need to renew their BLS skills and BLS Provider course completion card. This video-based, Instructor-led course features accelerated content that is designed for learners with existing BLS knowledge, allowing for time efficiency while teaching both single-rescuer and team BLS skills for application in both in-facility and prehospital settings. This 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. It includes adult, child, and infant rescue techniques. This course also teaches relief of choking. BLS teaches skills using the AHA’s research-proven Practice-While-Watching technique, which allows Instructors to observe the students, provide feedback and guide the students’ acquisition of skills.

After successfully completing the BLS Renewal Course, students should be able to
• Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
• Describe all of the steps of the Chain of Survival
• Apply the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival
• Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
• Perform high-quality CPR for an adult
• Describe the importance of early use of an AED
• Demonstrate the appropriate use of an AED
• Provide effective ventilation by using a barrier device
• Perform high-quality CPR for a child
• Perform high-quality CPR for an infant
• Describe the importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation
• Perform as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR
• Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for an adult or child
• Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for an infant

BLS Renewal Course Audience

The BLS renewal course enables providers with unexpired BLS certification to renew their course card for another two years by taking an accelerated curriculum.

BLS Renewal Course Course Completion Card

Upon completion of this course, students receive an American Heart Association BLS Provider Card that is valid for two years.

Provider eligibility for continuing education credit (BLS Renewal course)

Emergency Medical Services -- This continuing education activity is approved by the American Heart Association, an organization accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Pre-Hospital Continuing Education (CAPCE), for 2.25 Basic CEHs, activity number 18-AMHA-F2-0001.