XS135:
Introduction and practice in advance first aid, CPR techniques, AED instruction, and oxygen administration for the paramedical professional. Students must meet professional rescuer standards as established by national certification agencies such as the American Red Cross and the American Heart Association. Fee: $50.00
Meeting Times, Location, & Course Delivery Details
Contact Information
Upon successful completion of this course....
American Heart Association, BLS Provider Manual, 2020 edition
Required Breathing Device: Resuscitation Mask with O2 inlet/one way valve-provided by your class fees
- Explain how the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system works and the professional rescuer’s role in the EMS system, including how this role differs from the citizen responder’s.
- Identify guidelines to follow to ensure personal safety (BSI/BBP) and the safety of others at an emergency scene.
- Explain what happens in the body if certain body systems fail to function.
- Identify ways in which diseases are transmitted and describe basic safety precautions to prevent transmission (BSI/BBP).
- Recognize the signs and symptoms of breathing emergencies, including choking, and demonstrate how to provide rescue breathing and first aid for choking.
- Identify a resuscitation mask and a bag-valve mask and demonstrate how to use them.
- Identify the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease and describe how to minimize them.
- Recognize the signs and symptoms of a possible heart attack and describe how to care for someone who is experiencing persistent chest pain.
- Recognize the signs of cardiac arrest and demonstrate how to provide CPR until advanced emergency medical care arrives.
- Explain how to give CPR in certain special situations and under certain conditions.
- Understand lifesaving defibrillation, including using an automated external defibrillator.
- Identify when it is appropriate to administer supplemental oxygen.
- Describe and demonstrate the steps required to administer supplemental oxygen to a breathing and non-breathing victim.
- Describe and demonstrate how to measure and insert an oropharyngeal (oral) airway and a nasopharyngeal (nasal) airway.
- Describe and demonstrate the techniques for suctioning.
- Recognize life-threatening bleeding and demonstrate how to control it.
- Recognize the signs and symptoms of shock and describe how to minimize its effects.
- Recognize the signs and symptoms of various soft tissue and musculoskeletal injuries and demonstrate how to care for them.
- Recognize the signs and symptoms of sudden illness, including poisoning, bites and stings, and heat and cold emergencies, and describe how to care for them.
- Describe when and how to move a victim in an emergency situation.
Tentative Schedule
Subject to change during the semester. Adequate notice of changes will be given.
Course Schedule
| Week | Weekly Dates | Topic |
| WK 1 | 1/13-17 | Part 1: Intro/General Concepts, AHA Guidelines, Age defined, Cardiac Arrest vs Heart Attack |
| WK 2 | 1/20-24 (no class Mon) | BBP/ Shock/Recovery position Part 2: Chain of Survival |
| WK 3 | 1/27-31 | Part 3: BLS/CPR Adults, continued Part 4: AED- Adult (over 8 yr old) |
| WK 4 | 2/3-7 | Part 5: Team Dynamics (roles/resp, communication) Part 6: BLS/CPR Infant and Children |
| WK 5 | 2/10-14 | Part 6: BLS/CPR Infant and Children, continued Part 7: AED- Child (under 8 yr old), Infant |
| WK 6 | 2/17-21 | Part 8: Alt Ventilation Techniques Part 9: Opioid-Associated Life-Threatening Emergencies |
| WK 7 | 2/24-28 | Part 10: Other Life-Threatening Emergencies Part 11: Choking Relief (adult, child, infant) |
| WK 8 | 3/3-7 | Part 11: Choking Relief (adult, child, infant), continued AHA TEST #1 ? (Specific date is the ?) |
| WK 9 | 3/10-14 | SPRING BREAK- NO CLASS |
| WK 10 | 3/17-21 | Oxygen, Airways (OPA, NPA), Suction |
| WK 11 | 3/24-28 | Oxygen, Airways (OPA, NPA), Suction, continued |
| WK 12 | 3/31-4/4 | First Aid topics: bleeding, heat/cold emergencies, soft tissue/ musculoskeletal conditions, sudden illness, poisoning, bites/stings |
| WK 13 | 4/7-11 | First Aid topics: bleeding, heat/cold emergencies, soft tissue/ musculoskeletal conditions, sudden illness, poisoning, bites/stings, continued |
| WK 14 | 4/14-18 (no class Fri) | First Aid topics: bleeding, heat/cold emergencies, soft tissue/ musculoskeletal conditions, sudden illness, poisoning, bites/stings, continued |
| WK 15 | 4/21-25 | Moving a victim in an emergency situation, Specific emergency sport related topics (Spine boarding) |
| WK 16 | 4/28-5/2 (last day class) | Specific emergency sport related topics (Spine boarding), continued Catch up/review if needed |
| Final Exam | 5/7/25 10:15am-12:15pm | FINAL WRITTEN EXAM (AHA #2 TEST) ***FINAL PRACTICAL EXAM- by appointment in my office*** |
Course Purpose:
Provide the professional rescuer with the knowledge and skills necessary in an emergency to help sustain life, reduce pain and minimize the consequences of respiratory and cardiac emergencies and injury or sudden illness until more advanced medical help can arrive. Course meets the 2020 Guidelines for Emergency Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care.
Evaluation Procedure:
1Exam....................…………………….25 pts, counts double
1Exam....................…………………….15 pts, counts double
Weekly Quizzes...……………………...20 pts. each
Skill Check off’s ………………………10 pts. each
Final Practical Exam..……….………...200 pts.
**Exams and assignments may vary**
*Written & practical skill check offs must be passed by 84% or higher in order to receive a certification card from the American Heart Association. The certification card is good for 2 years.
**BBP is renewed annually (possibly required by workplaces).
***Practical check offs will be scheduled outside of regular class time
Grading Scale: A = 90 – 100% of total pts.
B = 80 – 89% of total pts.
C = 70 – 79% of total pts.
D = 60 – 69% of total pts.
F = 59% and below
*Grading system is straight letter grade, no +/- grades.
* Points will be deducted from tests for late arrival on test days*
Grade Notification: Available on Blackboard
Instructor Course Policies
Due to the hands on experiences of this course, students are expected to attend all classes. More than 3 (three) unexcused absences will result in an “F” in this course, regardless of points accumulated on exams, quizzes, etc.
“See the current Student Handbook for the college’s Attendance Policy especially as it pertains to excused absences.”
Two (2) late arrivals to class with result in an unexcused absence. You will be given a warning after the first infraction.
Academic Misconduct:
Scholastic misconduct is cause for a failing grade (for assignment and/or the class) and a letter about the incident will be placed in the student’s permanent file in the Office of Academic Affairs. The student may be asked to appear before the Academic Standards and Appeals Committee as well.
Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating on assignments or examinations, plagiarizing, misrepresenting as your own work any part of work done by another, or interfering with another student’s work.
“See the current Student Handbook for the college’s Academic Integrity policies as they pertain to examinations, plagiarism, classroom behavior, and the process for handling academic misconduct charges.”
Cell Phone/Texting:
ABSOLUTELY NO cell phone use (including texting) in class! Your complete attention is needed at all times
Institutional and Program-Level Policies
All exams will follow the Final Exam Schedule. Students scheduled to take three or more final examinations on one day may request to arrange their examination schedule, so no more than two exams occur on one day.
Requests for early or late exams are considered only under extreme circumstances. Prior to the exam period, the student must file a written request on the Early/Late Exam Form available in the Student One Stop Center, Academic Records, and on the WC portal. The form must be signed by the Instructor and the Academic Dean, approving the alternate exam time. This process must be completed prior to the scheduled exam period.
Out-of-class Work Expectation A minimum of 2 hours of out-of-class student work is expected for each hour of in-class time for traditional face-to-face courses. For online and hybrid courses, the combination of face-to-face time and out-of-class work should be equal to 3 hours per credit hour per week. |
Instructional Course Delivery |
Academic Integrity Policy The use of generative AI is prohibited except where expressly allowed in assignment instructions. |
Academic Misconduct - Examples [10/24]
ACADEMIC CODE OF CONDUCT
This policy is directly related to the first Testimony, which is part of the Student Code of Conduct. “I will practice personal and academic integrity.” The initial responsibility for dealing with academic misconduct lies with the individual faculty member in whose classroom or course of study the offense occurs. The responsibility includes determination of the consequences for the offense. The goal is for faculty to confront cheating and plagiarism, to teach ethical behavior, and to provide an appropriate consequence based on the nature of the incident. Faculty are encouraged to explicitly address academic misconduct and its consequences in the course syllabus.
EXAMPLES OF ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT
A. Examination offenses include, but are not limited to, the following:
1.Taking unauthorized materials into or out of the examination room.
2.Leaving the examination room without authorization before completing an examination.
3.Talking in the examination room without authorization.
4.Discussing the examination outside the examination room during the course of the examination.
5.Attempting to observe the work of another student.
6.Taking an examination for another person or permitting someone else to do so.
7.Collaborating improperly by discussion, joint research, or joint effort in any way expressly prohibited by the instructor. This includes using a cell phone or other device to access information from another source or another student.
8.Improper knowledge of contents of an examination - No student shall knowingly acquire unauthorized knowledge of an examination or any part of an examination, or solicit, offer, or give information about any part of an examination.
B. Student work offenses include, but are not limited to, the following, which are expressly prohibited in the absence of prior written approval of the instructor or instructors involved:
1.Resubmission of work - Submitting work which has been previously submitted for credit.
2. Plagiarism - Submitting work done wholly or partly by another, including the unattributed copying of all or parts of a published work or internet document. Using generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) sources to produce work (when not expressly permitted) is also a form of plagiarism. Some instances of plagiarism are the result of ignorance rather than dishonesty. When plagiarism is encountered, the instructor should be sure that the student knows proper procedures for attributing content.
3.Prohibited sources - Consulting material or persons contrary to the directions of the instructor.
4.Improper collaboration - Engaging in any discussion, joint research, or joint effort of any kind expressly prohibited by the instructor.
5.Deception - Misrepresenting the authenticity of sources, citations, or principles in any written work.
6. Sharing work – Students who share their work with others are responsible for how that work is used. For example, if a student shares a paper with another student to help him or her understand an assignment, and that student submits the work as their own, the author of the paper shares responsibility for the plagiarism committed by the other student.
D. Other misconduct - Engaging in any other improper conduct as specified by the instructor.
E. Lying – deliberately providing false information relevant to academic matters, such as misrepresenting the inability to take an examination because of illness.
F. Disruptive or disrespectful classroom behavior – causing a disturbance in the classroom, interrupting instruction, speaking rudely or threatening students or faculty.
Class Attendance Policy |
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