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11, 2025
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10, 2025
2025 AHA Guidelines: BLS, ACLS & PALS Changes
The American Heart Association released its comprehensive 2025 Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care in October 2025, marking the most significant update to resuscitation science in five years. With 760 specific recommendations spanning adult, pediatric, and neonatal life support, these guidelines introduce critical changes that every healthcare provider needs to understand and implement immediately. At Project Heartbeat, all of our BLS, ACLS, and PALS courses have been updated to reflect these latest 2025 guidelines. Whether you're due [...]
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09, 2025
HeartCode Complete vs. RQI: Best BLS, ACLS & PALS Training
HeartCode Complete vs. RQI: Understanding the Best Training Solution for BLS, ACLS, and PALS Certification In the world of healthcare, staying current with life-saving skills like Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) is not just mandatory—it's crucial to saving lives. As resuscitation science evolves, so do the training methods. Two of the most popular and effective American Heart Association (AHA) options available today are HeartCode Complete and RQI (Resuscitation Quality Improvement). [...]
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03, 2020
Problems with Excessive Ventilation During ACLS
At some point in your career, you have probably dealt with a patient who was hyperventilating. This is generally referred to as respirations greater than 20 per minute. When respirations become much faster than that, oxygen levels drop and your patient begins to feel lightheaded or dizzy. However, even when your patient cannot control his own respirations, such as during or after a code, he may still be hyperventilating due to rescuer attempts. There are three main reasons why you [...]
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03, 2020
The H’s and T’s of ACLS
When treating any patient, it is important to recognize what underlying concerns could be causing the present issue. Not only will this help you decide upon the correct treatment method, but also it will help you treat your patient in a more time-conscious manner. This is particularly important when treating patients with life-threatening conditions. When you learn ACLS, you will be clued in to what is commonly called the H’s and T’s, which is a [...]
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03, 2020
ACLS and PALS Medications to Study
An in-depth look at ACLS and PALS certification classes and their respective study booklets will quickly show you that there are numerous medications that can be used for every algorithm. While all of these medications are important and will probably be used on your floor or in your emergency department at one point or another, some of them are more likely to be seen on your certification examination and during your mega code. Therefore, focusing on the classification, dosages and usages of the following medications is most helpful for your limited study time.
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02, 2020
What to Expect During ACLS Training
Knowing what to expect when you are facing anything new can mean the difference between feeling deep anxiety or confidence. This is no different when it comes to ACLS training and testing.
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01, 2020
The Most Forgotten ACLS Algorithms
Because ventricular fibrillation, or V-fib, is so commonly seen and is so dangerous, it's typically a primary focus in any ACLS class. However, you should also focus sufficient time on the following two algorithms, frequently forgotten by well-meaning students.
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09, 2019
Save Time and Money with a Continuing Education Renewal Bundle
As a health care professional, your time is valuable. Working such a demanding job can take a toll on your mind and your body, and you need to treat your time off work as something incredibly important. Although continuing education is vital to maintaining your professional certifications and state licensure, you certainly do not want to be wasting your hours off work at multiple classes and lectures that are spread out over weeks or months. One of the best ways [...]
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07, 2019
ACLS Drugs Based on EKG Interpretation
One of the biggest differences between having a BLS certification and a more advanced ACLS certification is the difference in what you will be allowed to do during a code. While BLS focuses on the basic life support skills of CPR, ACLS builds on that information with more advanced knowledge of how to respond to a patient during respiratory arrest, cardiac arrest, shock, acute coronary syndrome or stroke. You will learn more about airway management, and you will focus [...]
