Courses

The courses listed below are all the training courses we are certified to teach. Although we may not have all of them on our schedule, we can upon request. We are primarily doing CPR classes in Colorado Springs right now, but we will come to you if you have a minimum of six students. Please select from below the CPR Training you need.

What CPR training is best for me?

  • We provide a comprehensive list of American Red Cross, American Heart Association, and Health and Safety Institute resuscitation and CPR training from hands-only CPR for the general public, to BLS and ACLS for advanced medical practitioners.
  • The American Red Cross, The American Heart Association, and The American Health and Safety Institute all meet the international liaison committee on resuscitation (ILCOR) training requirements. ILCOR is the certifying body that dictates the standard of care of resuscitation and resuscitation training.
  • The standard of training for OHSA is that training be “American Red Cross standard course or equivalent” to meet OSHA standard 1910.266 App B. All three agencies we teach under (Red Cross, AHA, HSI) meet this standard.
  • OHSA and Colorado Law may require that certain persons in your workplace be trained in First Aid and or CPR. Please check with your training representative, safety representative, and/or legal representative to determine if it is a workplace requirement for you.
  • Cardiac arrest (stopping of the heart corrected with CPR) can occur in anyone regardless of age, gender, health status, or location. As of 2016, four out of every five cardiac arrests occurred outside of the hospital setting. Being trained in and able to provide early CPR in addition to early access and use of AEDs dramatically increases the chances of survival from cardiac arrest in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.
  • Much of the science of resuscitation is denoted in the American Heart Association’s Emergency Cardiac Care guidelines and all three certifying bodies that we use (AHA, ARC, and HSI) all follow these guidelines.
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers is a common requirement for all healthcare providers but often also for other support staff in healthcare facilities. If you are attending the course as a training requirement, we recommend you ask your training representative if you are required to take BLS or CPR as they are different courses. BLS is considered a higher level of training compared to CPR.
  • Basic Life Support is the most common course we teach with the American Heart Association. Many hospitals require BLS to be with the American Heart Association and will not accept HSI or Red Cross training. Some hospitals utilize Red Cross and not AHA or HSI although this is rarer. Please verify with your training representative which agency your hospital or nursing school accepts.
  • The military training network currently utilizes American Red Cross training, but they may accept American Heart Association Training. Please verify with your training representative what training requirements your workplace has.
  • In our experience HSI training seems to provide the most comprehensive training for EMS and pre-hospital providers but may not always be accepted at every EMS agency and has advanced training specific to EMS providers. Please verify with your training representative if your Fire or EMS agency uses AHA, HSI, or Red Cross.
  • CPR for the professional rescuer is a Red Cross course that is most often taught to lifeguards and future lifeguards but may be a training requirement in addition to or in place of BLS for some healthcare providers such as resident physicians.
  • High-performance CPR by HSI is training designed to enhance CPR providers CCF or Chest-Compression Fraction (that is the amount of time with high quality compressions divided by the total resuscitation time and made into a percentage).
  • First Aid/CPR/AED is the most common course we teach with the American Red Cross. This is the best training for the layperson (term for non-medically trained first responder). This course also can be modified to focus on specific populations (adult, child, and/or infant) or place more emphases on specific first aid topics (Anaphylaxis & Epinephrine, Asthma & Quick-Relief, Head, Neck, MBJI and Splinting, Life-Threatening Bleeding and Tourniquet, Opioid Overdose and Naloxone).
  • Both Red Cross and American Heart Association provide the same level of training but have some differences in training expectations for this training. One example is the idea of giving rescue breaths being more emphasized with the American Red Cross layperson CPR training and less emphasized for American Heart Association Heartsaver training.
  • We are an approved vendor with the Colorado Office of Early Childhood (CDHS/OEC) for CPR, First Aid, Wilderness First Aid and Standard Precautions.
  • On average certification with the American Red Cross may be a little pricier than the Heart Association and Health and Safety Institute but each training has its own pros and cons for you to consider before attending.
  • For more information on resuscitation check out the links below:

What First Aid Training is Best for me?

  • We provide general First Aid training, Wilderness First Aid training, and general stop-the-bleed training at JPC Health & Safety Training, LLC. We are also EMS instructors and can provide more advanced and comprehensive training. In addition to this, we provide many specific courses based on your training needs.
  • Our general first aid training and bleeding control is with the American Red Cross, the Health and Safety Institute, the American Heart Association, and Stop-the-bleed.
  • Stop-the-bleed was made in a collaborative partnership with the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT), the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) committee on Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS), and the US Militaries Joint-service Trauma System (JSTS). The course was designed to focus on what was considered preventable loss of life from massive hemorrhage using tools such as tourniquets and direct pressure to save victims on the battlefield and in active shooter incidents.
  • Currently stop-the-bleed training is considered the gold standard and the American Red Cross and HSI have both developed their bleeding control curriculum to meet this standard.
  • Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) is a course developed by the US military and the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) to provide trauma care for battlefield combatants. The course can be customized for battlefield combatants (TCCC-AC), battlefield and/or tactical medical providers (TCCC-MP), or others. The course is different from other trauma and bleeding control courses as it emphasizes battlefield supremacy and separates care under fire from other care provided. Many of the lessons learned during wartime to design TCCC where later used to design the stop-the-bleed course.
  • The Health and Safety Institute provides a combination class of active shooter training known as Active Violence Emergency Response Training (AVERT) that combines active shooter and danger awareness and response (escape, evade, or attack) with massive hemorrhage control.
  • First Aid for Severe Trauma is a course designed by the American Red Cross specifically for high school students and teachers to be more prepared in the event of an active shooter drill and provide bleeding control for victims who have massive hemorrhage. Although the primary audience is high schoolers this course can be taken by anyone of any age.
  • First Aid/CPR/AED is the most common course we teach with the American Red Cross. This is the best training for the layperson (term for non-medically trained first responder). This course also can be modified to focus on specific populations (adult, child, and/or infant) or place more emphases on specific first aid topics (Anaphylaxis & Epinephrine, Asthma & Quick-Relief, Head, Neck, MBJI and Splinting, Life-Threatening Bleeding and Tourniquet, Opioid Overdose and Naloxone).
  • We provide more advanced First Aid training with HSI (Advanced Bleeding Control and Advanced First Aid) through what was formally called Medic First Aid training and has recently been incorporated into the standard HSI umbrella of training.
  • Our wilderness classes are more comprehensive than our general first aid classes and designed for students who are in the wilderness or remote environments where quick access to medical equipment or personnel is difficult or delayed. It also includes more hands-on training that standard first aid focusing on skills needed for evacuation or rescue.
  • Our basic wilderness fist aid and wilderness fist aid courses meet the Boy Scouts of America and American Camp Association training standers for wilderness first aid.
  • We are an approved training vendor with the Colorado Office of Early Childhood (CDHS/OEC) for CPR, First Aid, Wilderness First Aid, and Standard Precautions.
  • Bloodborne Pathogens is often a workplace training requirement or First Aid corequisite and we offer in-person and online courses for bloodborne pathogens on prevision of spread of bloodborne disease along with discussion on workplace action and prevention plans for exposure to bloodborne pathogens.
  • Both company owners are also Colorado licensed EMS Instructors with comprehensive First Aid and EMS experience and teach many classes focused on medical and trauma emergencies for EMS providers in addition to teaching our Emergency Medical Responder courses from American Red Cross and HSI.
  • For more information on First Aid check out the links below:
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