Courses

We believe that training and education is the cornerstone of a successful Emergency Medical Service. In addition to training our dedicated staff, we believe in training the communities, our partners, and our fellow responders — because studies have shown that the Chain-of-Survival depends on the training of everyone involved! Your training can make a significant impact on someone’s life and long-term survival!

Our courses are available both on premises at Gowanda Ambulance or at your location. For pricing and additional information on off-site training, please contact our Director of Education.

BLS Provider

$65

The AHA’s BLS courses for healthcare providers and pre-hospital providers can be delivered in a classroom setting or through a blended eLearning experience, where the student completes an online course and then attends a skills practice and testing session with an AHA Instructor.

Course Content:

  • High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants

  • The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components

  • Use of an AED

  • Effective ventilations using a barrier device and Bag Valve Mask

  • Importance of teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR

  • Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants

Heartsaver CPR/AED

$45

Heartsaver CPR AED is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches adult and child CPR and AED use, infant CPR, and how to relieve choking in adults, children, and infants. 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. This course is not designed for the Healthcare Provider; however is excellent for the general public and those with little to no prior training.

Course Content:

  • Video-based course ensures consistency

  • Instructor-led, hands-on class format reinforces skills proficiency

  • Course is updated with the new science from the 2015 AHA Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

Heartsaver First Aid CPR/AED

$65

Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED is a video-based, instructor-led course 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, children, and infants; and what to do for sudden cardiac arrest in adults, children, and infants.
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.

Course Content:

  • Video-based course ensures consistency

  • Instructor-led, hands-on class format reinforces skills proficiency

  • Course is updated with the new science from the 2015 AHA Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

Heartsaver First Aid

$45

Heartsaver First Aid is a video-based, instructor-led course 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.

Course Contents:

  • Video-based course ensures consistency

  • Instructor-led, hands-on class format reinforces skills proficiency

  • Student Workbook comes with Heartsaver First Aid Quick Reference Guide that summarizes first aid actions for many injuries and illnesses

  • Course is updated with the new science from the 2015 AHA Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

Pediatric Advanced Life Support

$129

The AHA’s PALS Course has been updated to reflect science in the 2015 AHA Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC. This classroom, Instructor-led course uses a series of videos and simulated pediatric emergencies to reinforce the important concepts of a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation, and team dynamics. The goal of the PALS Course is to improve the quality of care provided to seriously ill or injured children, resulting in improved outcomes.

Course Contents:

  • Classroom-based courses work well for learners who prefer group interaction and instructor feedback while learning

  • Course includes realistic, clinical scenarios that encourage active participation – delivered through actual pediatric patient videos and lifelike simulations

  • Course is comprehensive and includes our systematic approach to assess and treat pediatric patients in emergency situations

  • Course uses a hands-on class format to reinforce skills proficiency

  • Co-branded with the American Academy of Pediatrics

Advanced Cardiac Life Support

$129

AHA’s ACLS Course has been updated to reflect new science in the 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. This course builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR.This advanced course highlights the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS).

Course Contents:

  • Course uses learning stations for practice of essential skills simulated clinical scenarios that encourage Active participation

  • Hands-on class format reinforces skills proficiency

  • Classroom-based works well for learners who prefer group interaction and instructor feedback while learning skills

International Trauma Life Support

$160

The ITLS course is hands-on and intensive. The course focuses on the skills necessary to recognize mechanisms of injury; perform an organized, time-efficient assessment; prioritize and perform critical interventions; and appropriately package and transport the trauma patient.

Course Contents:

  • Hands on practical skills

  • Didactic education and training delivered by our experienced staff

  • Internationally recognized course developed by leading experts in the field of trauma care

AHA Skills Verification

$25

Did you take an online AHA Course and require a skills verification? Gowanda Ambulance can provide your skills verification. Please contact our training staff directly for scheduling.