CPR First Aid

Complete CPR on DVD

Complete CPR is an instructional DVD from American Safety Emergency Medical Training that teaches you how to respond when someone stops breathing, collapses or chokes. It covers cardiac arrest, choking from a blocked airway, severe trauma and concussion, and it is intended for people who want to be useful in the minutes before professional help arrives. It suits households, shooters who spend time at the range, hunters, campers and anyone putting together a first aid kit who also wants to know how to use it.

Features

• CPR Technique and Equipment — Demonstrates cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the chest compressions and rescue breaths that keep blood and oxygen moving when the heart has stopped, along with the equipment used to deliver it.
• Child and Infant CPR — Covers how the technique changes for children and infants, whose smaller bodies need different hand placement and force.
• AED Instruction — Shows how to use an AED (automated external defibrillator), the portable device found in many public buildings that analyzes heart rhythm and delivers a corrective shock.
• Heimlich Maneuver — Teaches the abdominal thrusts used to clear a blocked airway when someone is choking.
• First Aid Techniques and Guidelines — Includes broader first aid guidance for trauma, concussion and casualties who are not breathing or have no pulse.
• Navy-Trained Instructor — Presented by John Klatt, a former US Navy medic and rescue diver and the president and founder of American Safety.
• Hands-On Demonstrations — Techniques are shown on training manikins so you can follow body position and hand placement step by step.
• DVD Format — English-language program on a standard DVD, catalog number X0566D.

Who Teaches It

The program is led by John Klatt, whose background as a US Navy medic and rescue diver informs a practical, scenario-based teaching style. It was produced in 2008 and is distributed by Gun Video. Use it as a primer or refresher alongside an in-person course. A DVD cannot replace hands-on certification, but it gives you a clear grounding in what to do and the order to do it in.