Description  AHA Heartsaver First Aid is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services arrives. Students learn duties and responsibilities of first aid rescuers; first aid actions for medical emergencies, including severe choking, heart attack, and stroke; and skills for handling injury and environmental emergencies, including external bleeding, broken bones and sprains, and bites and stings. CE/CME credits are not offered for this course.

Who Should Take This Course?  This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in first aid to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.  It is common for professionals in the following fields to take the Heartsaver First Aid Course; teachers, summer camp counselors, coaches, foster care, social workers, maritime (US Coast Guard approved) nannies, parents, grandparents, babysitters (ten years or older), construction, general workplace.

Course Content

• First aid basics
• Medical emergencies
• Injury emergencies 
• Environmental emergencies
• Preventing illness and injury

Required Student Materials Students will be provided with any necessary materials during class.

Course Format and Exam  During the course, an AHA Instructor conducts video-based lessons and works with students to complete their first aid skills practice and testing.  Upon successful completion of the course, including a first aid skills demonstration, students receive a Heartsaver First Aid course completion card that is valid for two years.

Course Completion Card Students receive the American Heart Association Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED eCard, valid for two years.  AHA cards will be processed as eCards, and usually received within 3-5 business days following the class.  Students can expect to receive an email from ecards@heart.org or noreply@heart.org, with a link to claim their eCard.Learn more >

Are you interested in taking this course online? The American Heart Association also has a blended learning format, where students take the cognitive portion online and schedule a Skills Practice Session and Skills Test with an AHA instructor. Want to learn more about this blended learning option? Click here>