The course provides training for:
     • Healthcare providers whose occupation or volunteer activities require airway management skills
     • Professionals in the field of resuscitation and airway management

The course provides training for:
     • Healthcare providers whose occupation or volunteer activities require airway management skills
     • Professionals in the field of resuscitation and airway management

ECG
• Heart anatomy
• Basic electrophysiology
• Normal ECG measurements
• Basic arrhythmias

Pharmacology
• Basic ACLS drugs and usage
• Drugs, doses and routes of administration during cardiovascular emergencies
• Integrating basic drug pharmacology into ACLS algorithms

Classroom-based (instructor and video, with skills conducted throughout)

Course length is 6.25 for both units. ECG unit is 3.5 hours and Pharmacology is 2.75 hours.

• Only course available to focus on this critical knowledge
• Flexible instructional format with two units – ECG and Pharmacology –  that be taught together or separately
• Fifty-page Student Workbook with colorful illustrations to be used before, during and after the course
• Open to any Instructor to teach with no requirement to be affiliated with an American Heart Association Training Center
• Instructor CD with instructor notes, lesson maps and administrative documents

ECG and Pharmacology Workbook Update 12-09

ECG and Pharmacology Workbook Update 10-11

ECG & Pharmacology Course Completion Certificate

This is a classroom-based course that is instructor led to present both modules, ECG and Pharmacology, together or separately depending on the need.

Q: Does the AHA determine the cost for all training courses and the accompanying course materials?

A: Costs for courses and materials are determined by Training Centers or Instructors and may vary. The AHA does not regulate price; however, provides its authorized distributors suggested retail pricing on course materials.

Complete list of FAQs

ECG & Pharmacology Instructor CD (80-1448)

ECG & Pharmacology Student Workbook (80-1467)

ECC Handbook is recommended