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Life Saving Skills

LIFE SAVING SKILLS

Summer 2024 Available Dates and Times

Friday, July 12 at 9am - First Aid and/or CPR/AED training
Wednesday, July 24 at 1pm - First Aid and/or CPR/AED training
Monday, July 29 at 2-5pm BLS class

*If any of the above dates don’t work for your schedule, please email fitrec@ou.edu

American Heart Association Classes at the Sarkeys Fitness Center

American Heart Association Class Descriptions and Cost

Heartsaver First Aid Basics

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. Does not include CPR and AED training.

Heartsaver® First Aid includes both online, video-based eLearning as well as instructor-led skills testing 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.

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. Does not include CPR and AED training.

$55.00 + tax

Heartsaver AED with Adult CPR (Child and/or infant can be added)

Heartsaver® CPR AED includes both online, video-based eLearning and instructor-led skills testing that teaches adult CPR and AED use, and how to relieve choking in adults. This course teaches skills with the AHA’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback, and guide the students’ learning of skills. Additionally, these skills can be taught for child and/or infant emergencies.

This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.

Adult Only- $60.00 + tax
Adult/Child- $65.00 + tax
Adult/Child/Infant- $75.00 + tax

Heartcode® Basic Life Saver (BLS)

This course is for healthcare professionals seeking an alternative method for completing an initial or renewal BLS course. The course includes CPR and AED skills for adult, child and infant.

Heartcode® BLS uses a variety of eLearning assets such as dramatizations, eSimulations, animations, self-directed learning and interactive activities to teach students BLS knowledge and skills. 

After completing the online portion, students attend a structured BLS Hands-On Session with OU Fitness and Recreation. This session focuses on meaningful skills practice, debriefing, team scenarios, discussions of local protocols, and skills testing.

$75.00 + tax

Heartsaver First Aid with Adult CPR AED (Child and/or infant can be added)

This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in first aid, CPR and AED to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements. 

Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED includes both online, video-based eLearning as well as instructor-led skills testing that teaches students critical skills needed to respond to and manage an emergency until emergency medical services arrives. Skills covered in this course include first aid; choking relief in adults; and what to do for sudden cardiac arrest in adults. Additionally, these skills can be taught for child and/or infant emergencies.

This course teaches skills with the AHA’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback, and guide the students’ learning of skills.

Adult Only- $80.00 + tax
Adult/Child- $85.00 + tax
Adult/Child/Infant- $95.00 + tax

For more information, please contact fitrec@ou.edu.