BLS: Basic Life Support

BLS: Basic Life Support (BLS) is the foundational course for healthcare professionals and trained first
responders who provide care to patients in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings. BLS is
the cornerstone program for healthcare professionals. As the gold standard, Heart & Stroke’s BLS

Training courses teach the theoretical and hands-on skills needed to respond to medical emergencies
and drives the best possible patient outcomes.
In this course, you will learn the fundamental skills of high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
for victims of all ages. You will practice delivering these skills as a single rescuer and as a member of a
multi-rescuer team.

The skills you learn in BLS will enable you to:

• Recognize a cardiac arrest
• Activate the emergency response system early
• Respond quickly and confidently
• Perform high-quality single-rescuer CPR and multi-rescuer team CPR
• This course will ensure people in cardiac arrest have the best chance of survival