Who should take it?
American Heart Association Family and Friends CPR Course is for anyone with limited or no medical training and who wants to learn how to give CPR to an adult, child or infant. Review of the Automatic External Defibrillator and how to assist someone who is choking is also covered. A certificate of completion is given at the conclusion of the course. This course does not fulfill the requirements for those who need a course completion card in CPR and AED to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.
About the course
The Family & Friends CPR Course teaches the lifesaving skills of adult Hands-Only CPR, adult CPR with breaths, child CPR with breaths, adult and child AED use, infant CPR, and mild and severe airway block for adults, children, and infants. Skills are taught in a dynamic group environment using the AHA’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which provides students with the most hands-on CPR practice time possible.