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CPR for children and infants
CPR on an infant is not CPR on an adult scaled down — the compression depth, hand position and rescue-breath technique are all different. This four-hour American Red Cross course trains you specifically for children and infants.
If children are in your care, generic adult CPR training is not enough. The technique differs meaningfully, and in a real emergency you will do what you practiced.
This course is built for childcare providers and daycare staff, school personnel and school nurses, coaches and youth sports organizations, camp counselors, babysitters and nannies, and parents and grandparents who want to be genuinely prepared.
Michigan childcare and school programs frequently need documented pediatric certification. We deliver onsite and certify your whole staff together.
The differences are significant. On an infant you use two fingers rather than two hands, compress to about one-and-a-half inches rather than two, and the ratio of breaths to compressions and the technique for opening the airway differ. This is why we train the pediatric skills separately and on infant manikins.
Yes. AEDs can be used on children, ideally with pediatric pads or a pediatric setting where the device offers one. If only adult pads are available, they should still be used — an AED is better than no AED. We cover exactly this in the course.
Two years from the date of completion.
Yes, routinely. We come to your centre or school anywhere in Michigan and certify your staff together, with classes capped at 12 so everyone gets hands-on practice.