Basic Life Support for healthcare providers offered

AUBURN — The Corporate and Community Services Department at Central Maine Community College will offer the American Heart Association’s Basic Life Support For Healthcare Providers course on Saturday, March 16 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

This course is designed to provide a wide variety of healthcare professionals with the skills to keep people alive until they can be brought to a hospital or be treated with more advanced lifesaving measures.

This 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-morning 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, however space is limited. The cost of the class is $79 and includes materials.

For more information or to register, please contact CMCC’s Corporate & Community Services at 755-5280, email training@cmcc.edu or visit www.cmcc.edu/training.