ProCPR Blog

There are different types of CPR. The ProCPR certification is a Healthcare Provider level certification. Healthcare Provider means that you will have training in adult, child, and infant CPR/AED for 1 and 2 rescuers. You will learn how to check for a pulse and how to give rescue breathing for a person who has a pulse, but is not breathing. You will also use a bag valve mask and a rescue mask to give ventilation. Healthcare provider CPR is most often required for anyone who is licensed to provide care.

Lay Rescuer CPR is much more simplified. In lay rescuer, you may do adult only CPR/AED or adult, child, and infant CPR/AED. Also, lay rescuers do not check for a pulse. Lay rescuers also only learn 1 person CPR. We offer certification in ProFirstAid (adult, child, infant) and ProFirstAid Basic (adult only). Lay rescuer CPR is most often needed for teachers, construction workers, general workplace, etc.

You most likely will need to do our blended course which includes a hands-on skill evaluation. If your employer will accept a 100% online course for re-certification, you can do that as well at our website. You can go to www.procpr.org to complete your training and certification.

We worked pretty hard on the training video library.  We spent time re-filming all of the necessary videos to cover the 2010 CPR guideline updates.  The updates apply to our CPR and First Aid training libraries:

ProCPR Training Videos

ProFirstAid Training Videos

ProFirstAid Basic Training Videos

ProFirstAid Advanced Training Videos

It has been a lot of work, but it’s worth it to make sure you’re all well trained and up to date.

We’ve also uploaded all of the videos to our YouTube Channel.  If you’d like to subscribe to the channel, we do add new videos there from time to time.

We hope that you enjoy the training videos.

A lot of you, and I do mean a lot, have been asking about the 2010 updates that have just released.  Some are asking if they should start teaching it immediately, others if the updates have gone into effect yet.

The simple answer is that they haven’t gone into effect yet officially.  New materials have to be created and printed or developed, and that takes time.  I’d look for things to go into effect toward the middle of 2011, with full roll-out by the end of the year.

Like most everyone else, we’re actively working on updating our training modules, and you’re going to start seeing a new video intro on the ones that have been updated.  Here’s a preview of that intro.

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We’re very proud to announce that we have launched our new ProFirstAid Advanced program.  ProFirstAid Advanced is online Pediatric CPR (adult, child, and infant) and First aid certification for the healthcare provider.

If you are currently certified with the Red Cross, AHA, American Safety Council, ASHI or Medic First Aid, you are welcome to utilize the program and receive a new, two-year ProFirstAid Advanced certificate. Blended learning certification with skills test is available.

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We’re all over social media, here at ProCPR.  In fact, we’ve got many twitter accounts that you can follow, for updates on each of our current programs.  We’d also like to invite you, if you haven’t already, to become a fan on Facebook.  It’s a growing community of all of you that loves keeping your skills fresh with our training videos, and have a great time with the profession of saving lives.  We’ve also got a youtube channel for you to subscribe to.  We’re updating it regularly with new training videos and other fun videos that we come up with to promote life-saving skills.

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A few years ago we recorded some snow safety training videos.  At the time, the videos were huge, and are still huge even by today’s standards.  Posting them to YouTube has helped, though.  For those that are interested, the reason they are so big is the huge snowflakes.  They required the video to create a new keyframe for every frame, resulting in a video that is at least twice the size that it could have been.  But that’s beside the point.

The videos cover topics such as hypothermia and frostbite.  We hope that you enjoy them!

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If you’ve been following the blog, you’d know that we seemed to disappear from updates for a few months.  We’ve been really busy with some new developments since late August that we’re hoping to launch in the near future.  In the meantime, if you didn’t notice the changes to ProCPR, ProFirstAid or ProBloodborne, we’ve made some changes.

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What do you do if you cut your finger and it won’t stop bleeding, or if your child has a high fever and a mysterious rash? If you’ve ever wondered, is this really an emergency, you’re not alone, and The Doctors are here to help!

Be sure to watch The Doctors today!

And remember to get CPR or First Aid Certified.

We’re proud to be a part of it!

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The Today Show, yesterday, had another segment of it’s First Aid TODAY series: Life-saving Resources. This time, it was all about child first aid. In this segment, they spoke mostly about what to do when a child or an infant is choking on something.

One thing that they suggested doing, however, is trying to save the child or infant for a little while BEFORE calling 9-1-1. But what’s the general consensus? Wouldn’t it be better if the professionals were summoned immediately, in case advanced help is required, and you’ve done all you can?

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In case you missed it, we sent out a press release on Tuesday morning regarding our mission to help people learn the skills that they can use to save the lives of family, friends, co-workers and others that may require CPR.

Here is the first part of the press release:

Everyone knows that taking a CPR class is a good idea, but nobody seems to have the time. Now you can learn CPR without leaving home.

Grand Rapids, MI (PRWEB) September 23, 2008 — High quality video-based CPR training is now being offered for free to anyone with Internet access at www.ProCPR.org.

According to statistics provided by the American Heart Association, about 75 to 80 percent of all sudden cardiac arrests happen at home. Knowing what to do in the case of an emergency could mean the difference between life and death for a loved one.

Now Roy Shaw, a licensed paramedic and co-founder of ProCPR.org, is determined to make this life saving training available to anyone who is willing to take the time to learn. According to Roy, “No price can be placed on the value of a life. The Internet is helping us break down the barriers that exist with classroom training.” Upon completing the program, Morgan Schäaf, a C.N.A. from Jacksonville, FL, wrote, “I found the training much more interesting and plausible than the traditional classroom experience. I’m going to recommend this to everybody I know!”

You can read more of the press release here or here.

If you’re not yet convinced that you should be well prepared to put your CPR skills to practice, we’ve found a story on the website “5 Minutes for Mom” called Have you ever had to use CPR? in which they talk about CPR review videos like the ones we have on ProCPR and ProHomeSafety.

They also have a story from a year prior called How Well Do You Know CPR? that details a scare that one of the writers had.  She talks about how she wants to know more than she does about CPR, and wants to stay on top of her things in case anything should happen again.

We send out a free weekly CPR refresher e-mail that you can use to watch one of our training videos every week to stay sharp in your training. Feel free to sign up to receive those.  If you want, you can also go through our full video training libraries both at ProCPR.org, and ProFirstAid.com where we also have water safety training and more.