Upcoming! August 2017 CPR & Basic Life Support Course

July 19, 2017

The Center for Workforce and Professional Development at Central Maine Community College will offer the American Heart Association’s Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers course on Tuesday, August 15 from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m.

This course is designed to provide a wide variety of professionals with the skills needed to help victims until they can be treated by paramedics or at a hospital. The course covers adult and pediatric CPR, use of the bag-valve mask, airway obstruction, automated external defibrillation (with child AED update), stroke and cardiac arrest and other special resuscitation situations.

This single-evening course is open to the public and is intended for physicians, nurses, paramedics, first responders, medical technicians, aids or assistants and anyone whose work brings them into contact with members of the public such as school, hotel, fitness center and restaurant employees. Registration for this course is open and ongoing, but space is limited. The cost of the class is $79 and includes materials.

For more information or to register, please contact The Center for Workforce and Professional Development at 207-755-5280, email workforcedevelopment@cmcc.edu, or visit www.cmcc.edu/ccs. Deadline for registration is Thursday, August 10.