New Web Site Launched! We have just completed our new web site. We have added new American Heart Association Online Certification Courses and sections to our web site We have added a documents section, a support section and an affiliates section. We hope you like our new layout and the new courses we have added to the site. It will be an on going project with new items and sections being added. Let us know what you think click here to leave us a message or ask us a guestion.
PALS Online Is Finally Here! We are excited to announce that we will finally are able to offer The American Heart Association PALS Online Certification Course! After years in the developing, the PALS course is now available. Check it out on our course list page.
Rumor Control It has come to our attention that some training centers are stating that online certifications are not for those whose certifications have expired or are not for first time certification.This is not true. The American Heart Association has stated that all of their online certification courses can be taken by anybody regardless of their current certification status or whether or not they have every been certified in the past. It is true that this has not always been the case. The AHA used to require first time BLS students take a traditional instructor led in-person class the first time they certify, but this is no longer the case. Please contact The American Heart Association if any training center or employer refuses to accept these AHA certification certificates and/or wallet cards because you where a first time student or were expired prior to completing any of these courses.
Summer Is Here! Well Okay, summer doesn't officially start until June 21st, but we're not waiting until then to start celebrating! To find out what this summers' discount are, please call us or click on the contact link at the top of the page and fill out the message form. Some of our promotions include up to 25% of your order, free BLS with ACLS order, free shipping and more. Call 971-404-2273 to find out what this summers' promotions are.
Did You Know? Bee Gees ‘Staying Alive’ Helps People Stay Alive. For years, we were told that resuscitating an individual through CPR meant performing a combination of chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth. The problem was that would-be-helpers who had no formal CPR training (and even the ones who did and had forgotten the technique) were afraid of administering CPR. It was too complicated to remember how many compressions to execute before administering breaths, the number of which was also too hard to remember. Well, fear no more. A new guideline has made CPR much simpler. It has been discovered that compression-only CPR may work just as well as compression/breathing technique. Dr. Michael Sayre, an emergency medicine professor at Ohio State University who headed the committee that made the recommendation said it best: “You only have to do two things. Call 911 and push hard and fast on the middle of the person’s chest.” The only other thing to remember is this. You should administer compressions at a rate of 100 per minute. Don’t bother getting your stop watch out, and don’t count. There’s an easier way. Remember the Bee Gees’ Staying Alive song? It turns out that it has 103 beats per minute, which means it’s perfect for CPR. Just sing it to yourself as you’re doing chest compressions. Saturday Night Fever and John Travolta save the day.
