CPR Certification Classes: CPR/AED Training for Every Age Group

Book a class, attend it, and pass the skills test. Our American Red Cross CPR classes run at every Coast2Coast facility, and you leave with a card the day you pass. Pick the level that matches who you may have to help, choose blended learning or fully in person, and register. No prerequisite, no medical background assumed.

Not entirely. Every CPR certification an American employer recognizes includes a hands-on skills test, and that has to happen in a room with an instructor. What you can do online is the theory. Search for CPR certification online and you will find plenty of online CPR courses and online CPR certification training that teach the theory well, but a pure online certification cannot certify you for work.

Almost never. Ask your employer whether they accept an online CPR course before you pay for one, because most treat a pure online certification as theory rather than proof. Our blended option gives you the flexibility people want from CPR certification online without the risk: you finish the online portion of the training at home, then attend a shorter CPR certification class for the practical work.

The online CPR portion, yes. Our online CPR certification training is self-paced, so students start their CPR certification online in the morning and sit the classroom skills later that week. Searching for CPR training online gets you this format. What no online certification course can do is sign off your skills test.

Match the class to the age of the people around you. Adult covers adults only. Pediatric covers infants and children. Adult and Pediatric covers both, and it is the safest choice if your employer has not named a level. Every CPR class on this page carries the same certificate validity.

Two years from the date you pass. Your American Red Cross certificate shows the expiry date on its face. Set a reminder about two months out, because an expired card means taking the full CPR certification class again.

The American Red Cross offers a shorter review course, but only while your certificate is still valid. Once a card expires that route closes and you retake the full CPR certification class at the level you hold. So check the expiry date before you book, and call 1-866-291-9121 if you are not sure which one your CPR recertification needs.

One handles the heart stopping, the other handles everything else. A CPR and AED course teaches compressions, rescue breaths and defibrillator use. A first aid course teaches bleeding control, burns, anaphylaxis, stroke and nine more emergencies. Our CPR first aid classes combine both into one certificate. If your workplace asks for a CPR first aid certification on a single card, that is the page you want.

If a baby or a small child could be in the room, yes. Infant CPR is not adult CPR scaled down. Compression depth, hand position and the choking sequence all change. Childcare licensing bodies usually ask for it by name, and parents book this CPR training for their own peace of mind rather than for a job.

Probably not — healthcare providers usually need Basic Life Support. BLS is the AHA course written for healthcare providers who resuscitate as a team, with two-rescuer compressions and bag-mask ventilation. The CPR training on this page is built for a single rescuer. If your license or your unit asks for BLS, healthcare providers should book Basic Life Support instead.

Compressions, rescue breaths, defibrillator use and choking relief. You work on manikins sized for the age groups your level covers, then take an automated external defibrillator trainer through pad placement and the shock sequence. The CPR skills get repeated until you can run them without being talked through it, which is exactly what the skills test checks.

Yes, across every class we run. Coast2Coast is an American Red Cross Authorized Training Provider, and our AED and first aid programs meet OSHA workplace requirements in all US locations. A job posting that lists CPR/AED first aid training is describing exactly this. If your safety officer needs paperwork, the certificate names the provider, the level and the expiry date.

Between 90 minutes and four hours, depending on the level. Pediatric is the shortest. Adult and Pediatric is the longest. You will learn CPR faster than most people expect, because the sequence itself is short and the class time goes into repeating it until your hands know it without you thinking.

You practice on an AED trainer, which is the point. A trainer runs the same pad placement, the same voice prompts and the same rhythm analysis as the unit on the wall at your workplace, without delivering a shock. Every student handles one. Meeting an automated external defibrillator for the first time during an emergency is exactly what this class prevents.

Within 48 hours of passing. Your digital American Red Cross certificate arrives by email, so you can forward it to an employer the same week you train. You also get a free 90-day skills practice retake at no additional cost if you want more repetitions before you rely on the skill.