Purchase and complete available online courses below and attend a brief (20-30 minute) skills check off with Sav-A-Heart at your convenience. Skills testing is available daily so call or email for an appointment that fits your schedule. Make sure to bring your completion certificate with you to your scheduled hands on skills checkoff appointment.

• HeartCode® BLS(Formerly BLS for Healthcare Providers Online Part 1)
• Heartsaver First Aid Online
• Heartsaver® CPR AED Online
• Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED Online
• Heartsaver® Pediatric First Aid CPR AED Online

The BLS for Healthcare Provider Course teaches adult and pediatric CPR; including one and two rescuer scenarios, the use of a bag mask, foreign body airway obstruction for the conscious and unconscious victim, and the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED).

• Course Length
• All ages: 4 hours

• Intended Audience
• All healthcare providers, such as EMS personnel, nurses, doctors, dentists, physician assistants, and others requiring a credentialed card documenting successful completion of course.

• Pricing
• $60

• The AHA online renewal course provides a review for healthcare professionals who have PRIOR CPR training. You may also take the renewal course from your local Sav-A-Heart instructor. This class will include a written exam and skills evaluation. This program recognizes that healthcare professionals have knowledge and skills acquired from prior CPR training and years of patient care.

• Pricing
• $50

• Heartsaver® CPR AED is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches adult CPR and AED use, as well as how to relieve choking on an adult. This course teaches skills with AHA’s research-proven Practice-While-Watching (PWW) technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback and guide the students’ learning of skills.

• Course Length
• All ages: 2 hours

• Intended Audience
• All lay rescuers, such as first responders, childcare providers, family members of patients at risk for sudden cardiac death, and other laypersons who have an AED unit on-site.

• Pricing
• $60

• The Heartsaver First Aid course provides the skills to effectively assess and maintain life from the critical minutes immediately following an emergency until the arrival of emergency medical services personnel. The course also provides corporations with a complete health and safety training solution for First Aid, CPR and AED.

  The Heartsaver First Aid Course has been developed using the same evidence-based process as all American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care courses.

• Course Length
• • First Aid: 2 hours
• • First Aid + CPR + AED: 4 hours

• Intended Audience
• Persons assigned to respond to emergencies in the workplace or community as well as those who want to learn first aid, CPR and AED skills. Some rescuers are required to take this course as part of their employer's efforts to comply with OSHA regulations, e.g., corporate employees, child care providers, teachers, security guards, airline personnel, lifeguards and other individuals who want or need first aid training.

• Pricing
• $60

• The CPR for Family and Friends course is modular and teaches rescuers skills in CPR and relief of choking (foreign-body airway obstruction). It presents information about the American Heart Association adult Chain of Survival and signs of heart attack, cardiac arrest, stroke and choking in adults. The course also presents information o­n the American Heart Association pediatric infant and child Chain of Survival, signs of choking in infants and children, how to reduce risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), and prevention of the most common fatal injuries in infants and children.

• Course Length
• • All ages: 2 hours

• Intended Audience
• All lay rescuers, such as schoolchildren, family members of patients at risk for sudden cardiac death, and other laypersons who want to learn rescue skills for loved ones.

Heart Saver Instructor Training

We’re excited you are interested in aligning with the Sav-A-Heart Training Center! Below are the 6 steps you are required to complete to become a Heart Saver instructor. Please feel free to contact us with any questions!

• You must be American Heart Association Heart Saver, First Aid, CPR, and AED certified WITHIN 60 days of your on-site class. These classes can be scheduled by calling or emailing us.

• You must purchase the Heart Saver, First Aid, CPR, and AED instructor textbook and DVD.

• Complete the online Heart Saver Instructor Essential Course which is located at onlineaha.org.

• Once you have completed these steps you are ready for an On-Site Instructor Course.

• Upon course completion, you are required to monitor a course taught by a current Sav-A-Heart instructor

• Finally, a Sav-A-Heart instructor will monitor you while you teach a course utilizing your own equipment: DVD, books, training masks, dummies, and AED trainer

Once all of these steps are complete you will receive your Heart Saver instructor certification! You will be required to continue to purchase cards to provide to your students and submit a bi-annual instructor renewal fee.