ITC Level 3 Award in Adult Basic Life Support and Automated External Defibrillation

The ITC Level 3 Award in Adult Basic Life Support and Automated External Defibrillation (Ad BLS & AED) gives learners the skills to provide basic life support and to operate an automated external defibrillator.  Whether these skills are used in a workplace, a community organisation, within a family or as bystander prepared to act in an emergency, they are vital skills to have to help to try to save lives.

Delivery

Topics include: dealing with unresponsive adult casualties who are breathing and those who are not breathing.  This includes learning how put people in the Recovery Position, how to carry out Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation and how to use an Automated External Defibrillator.

Typical delivery methods are predominantly practical and the course is assessed by continual observation of learner performance.

Features

Qualification training requires:

• Minimum course contact time of 3 hours (excluding breaks).
• 1:12 assessor to learner ratio.
• Course must be completed within 3 weeks of starting.
• Each delivery session must be a minimum of 1 1/2 hours.
• Successful completion will result in candidate gaining ITC Level 3 Award in Adult Basic Life Support and Automated External Defibrillation with a valid certificate lifetime of 3 years from date of course completion.
• Ad BLS & AED requalification is by taking the full Ad BLS & AED qualification again.