Basic CPR & AED Training

Basic CPR & AED Training

Want to know how to do CPR & use a defibrillator, but don’t want to do a full first aid course? This is the course for you! This 2 hour Basic CPR & AED training course has been mapped to current UK Resuscitation Council guidelines & is aimed at anyone over 12 years of age who wants to learn how to do effective CPR.

Course syllabus includes:

• What is a “heart attack” and what’s a “cardiac arrest”?
• How to assess the emergency in order to act safely, promptly and effectively (“the primary survey”)
• Recognise & administer first aid to an adult, child or infant casualty who;
  • is unresponsive & breathing normally (“recovery position”)
  • is unresponsive & not breathing normally (providing CPR & using an AED Defibrillator)
• “Before and After” AED maintenance checks and actions.

Basic CPR & AED Training Certificate:

• Issued by Chris Garland Training.
• Your A4 sized pdf certificate will be valid for 1 year.

Course duration:

• 2 hours of practical, face-to-face training (also known as “guided learning”).

Test:

• Practical assessments throughout the course.

Basic CPR & AED Training Pre-requisites:

• You’ll need to be able to demonstrate first aid procedures as you would in a real activity environment. This includes providing CPR to a casualty who is on the floor. So you must be physically capable of doing this to pass the course.
• You will need to have conversational level spoken English, or someone with you to act as a translator. (Note that they will effectively be a student and will also need to purchase a place in the course).
• The course is suitable for anyone over 12 years old.

Candidates:

• All courses have a minimum and maximum number of candidates that we can take on a course.
  • Minimum: We need a minimum of 4 candidates booked on an open/scheduled course for the course to run. Click here for more details.
  • Maximum: We limit numbers to a maximum of 16 candidates per session. Should you have more than 16 candidates that need to be trained, please contact us to arrange a private course.

Geographical coverage:

• This AED course is available to candidates throughout the UK.
• Although the content of the course has been developed in accordance with current UK practice, the course can be delivered in other countries.

Venue:

• Scheduled courses run at our training centre in Knutsford, Cheshire.
• Why not arrange to have a private courses run at your workplace? Simply fill in our quote builder tool to request a quotation.

Basic CPR & AED Training Joining instructions:

• Visit this page to read the course joining instructions.
• Where your course is not being run at our main training centre, you’ll also receive an email with additional joining instructions including the venue address.

Private courses:

• To arrange a private course for yourself or your colleagues, please fill in our Quote Builder tool.