Infant CPR in Los angeles
In my on going concern of protecting my bean from all possible harm, I realized that even with all my planning and provisioning, I would not be able to cover every inevitable harmful scenario. The result of this mental exercise, I need to learn infant CPR.
RED CROSS
I start my search with The American Red Cross. The American Red Cross offers an online course
Child/Infant CPR
Time allowed for course: 14 days
This web-based course teaches American Red Cross CPR for children (ages 1-12) and infants (under age 1). Students will learn how to recognize and respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies. This course may take up to 3 hours. To earn CPR certification, students must pass the online test and then attend a skill session to perform and review skills.
CPR certification is valid for 1 year.
Course fee: $40.00 USD
They also offer standard courses
CPR Training Course
This 4 hour course provides individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and provide basic care for breathing and cardiac emergencies for adults.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the three emergency action steps to follow in an emergency.CPR Class
- Learn the four life-threatening conditions for which you should check
- Recognize the signals of a heart attack.
- Learn the cardiac chain of survival for a victim of cardiac arrest.
- Learn the precautions for using and AED.
- Demonstrate how to use basic precautions when caring for victims of breathing and cardiac emergencies.
- Demonstrate how to check an unconscious adult.
- Demonstrate how to care for a conscious and an unconscious choking adult.
- Demonstrate how to give CPR to an adult.
- Demonstrate how to use an AED for an adult in cardiac arrest.
Length: Approximately 4 hours
Certificate Validity: 1 year
If you would like to schedule CPR training for a group of people of 10 or more at your site, please call (310) 445-2688 or see more information at Workplace Safety
If you need to take a CPR class for yourself, American Red Cross has community classes available. Please call 1-800-627-7000 to get course schedules and to register.
Here’s a map of all the Red Cross locations:
Okay, I lied, those locations above are not all. There is a Santa Monica Red Cross office as well. They offer CPR classes for free. Here is a list of their offerings:
32410: Adult CPR with First Aid
32407: Adult, Infant, & Child CPR with First Aid
32415: Adult/AED, Infant, & Child CPR
32800: CPR for the Professional Rescuer
32302: Infant and Child CPR with First Aid
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YMCA
The Los Angeles YMCA offers a ton of courses in a variety of subjects. They also offer a variety of CPR classes. My local YMCA, the Westside Family YMCA offers the following courses:
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CPR and First-Aid Certification classes are offered on the following Saturdays from 10:00am – 2:00pm: CPR w/ AED & First Aid Class Fees
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In addition, the Santa Monica CPR Training Center also looks like a great resource.
They offer the following:
We offer the following CPR classes:
BLS for Healthcare Providers $60.00
Heartsaver AED (includes CPR) $55.00
Heartsaver CPR $50.00
Family and Friends CPR $40.00
BLS Skills Test (call for appointment) $65.00
Please call about First Aid classes.
I also found some other online resources:
The University of Washington has some online help, illustrations of proper application of infant CPR and a video.
UCLA also offers some CPR courses, however I didn’t see anything specific on Infant CPR.
onlinebabycpr.com also offers a free course