PADI Emergency First Response® – CPR & AED

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About the PADI Emergency First Response® – CPR & AED Course

Gain the skills and confidence to save the life of someone you care about.

After completing the Emergency First Response CPR & AED course, you’ll know how to aid someone who may be experiencing cardiac arrest with an AED (Automatic External Defibrillator), or by providing traditional or hands-only CPR.

What You'll Learn

  • Confidently perform CPR
  • Help someone who is not breathing normally
  • Increase a patient’s chance of survival

Certification Requirements

  • Desire to help others
  • Self-study: 2-4 hours
  • Entire course: 4-6 hours
  • Age: no minimum
  • Health: no requirement

Emergency First Response® CPR & AED Training

The hybrid online CPR and AED course allows you to learn lifesaving skills on a timeline that works for you. Start with online self-study then schedule in-person training with an instructor. It's your course at your pace.

Step 1

PADI e-learning

Online training makes it easy to fit a CPR and AED course into a busy schedule. Training videos show proper techniques and teach you how to respond to different types of emergencies. Study online or offline, using a computer or mobile device. Connect with your instructor if you have questions

  • e-learning time commitment: 2-4 hours

Step 2

With Your Instructor

Learn nine essential skills for helping others in an emergency including how to use an AED on adults and children and how to help someone who is choking. Get hands-on experience administering CPR using adult, child and infant mannequins. Practice your new skills in role-playing scenarios.

Total time commitment: 4-6 hours

After this Course

Your EFR® Instructor can also train you how to provide first aid for both life-threatening and non-life-threatening emergencies and how to handle common childhood illnesses and injuries.

Available Languages

English, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Malay.

Visit the PADI Website

Visit the PADI website for detailed course pricing, more information or to book this course.

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For accredited courses a certificate will be sent directly to you from the appropriate awarding body.

For short courses a completion certificate is available at the end of the course.

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If you plan to be somewhere without internet access, use the PADI Training app to download course content and study offline. Content can be downloaded in small sections with a total file size of approximately 182 MB. When you get back online, upload your progress so you can resume your training right where you left off.

The PADI Training app is available for Android and Apple iOS devices. For the ideal experience, devices should be no more than three models old and running with the most current OS (operating system).

After you purchase this course you will be contacted by PADI.

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