Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) for PGY 1 SUNY DOWNSTATE RESIDENTS
Date/Time:	Sun 6/29/2025 at 10:00 AM
Location:	NEW YORK - 450 Clarkson Ave, BROOKLYN, NY, 11203 (SUNY Downstate)
Class Price:	$0.00

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) (10-12 hours)

The ACLS course builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR. This advanced course highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care, and immediate post-cardiac arrest care. ACLS also covers airway management and related pharmacology. Skills are taught in large-group sessions and small-group learning and testing stations where case-based scenarios are presented.

The ACLS course covers:

• ACLS algorithms
• Immediate post-cardiac-arrest care
• Airway management
• Rhythm recognition
• High-quality CPR
• 1-rescuer CPR AED
• Effective resuscitation team dynamics
• Science overview
• BLS and ACLS surveys
• ACS
• Megacode treatment
• Identification and initial care of other life-threatening clinical situations (such as stroke).

Do You Need BLS? You can also get your BLS for Healthcare Providers Certification during this course by adding the AHA BLS Healthcare Provider Course from the menu below. 

The BLS for Healthcare Providers course is designed to provide a wide variety of certified or noncertified, licensed or nonlicensed, healthcare professionals with the skills to keep people alive until they can be brought to a hospital or be treated with more advanced lifesaving measures.

 The BLS course covers:

• Adult, Child, and Infant CPR
• Two-rescuer scenarios and use of the bag-valve mask
• Foreign-body airway obstruction (conscious and unconscious)
• Automated external defibrillation (AED) for adult, child, and infant
• Special resuscitation situations
• Other cardiopulmonary emergencies and stroke and cardiac arrest 
• Advanced Airways
• Rescue Breathing

ELIGIBILITY*:  PGY 1 SUNY Downstate Paid Residents