CPR Awareness / Resources
Resources and next steps
Where to go after CPR Awareness: the next steps in order, then every link from the lessons with what it's for. Links open the official site in a new tab.
Next steps, in order
All resources
- American Heart Association: 2025 Guidelines for CPR and ECC
The current national CPR guidelines this course follows, published October 2025.
- American Heart Association: Hands-Only CPR
The two steps for an adult or teen who collapses: call 911, then push hard and fast. Short videos and a song playlist at the right beat.
- American Heart Association: What is an AED and how to use one
Step-by-step AED use in plain language, and why anyone can use one.
- American Red Cross: CPR steps
The Red Cross's step-by-step CPR guide, including rescue breaths for trained rescuers.
- American Red Cross: AED steps
Pad placement for adults and children, and what to do before and after a shock.
- American Red Cross: Adult and child choking
How to give back blows and abdominal thrusts, with special cases such as pregnancy and wheelchairs.
- CDC: Lifesaving naloxone
What naloxone is, how it reverses an opioid overdose, and where to get it.
- AHA and Red Cross: 2024 Guidelines for First Aid
The joint first aid guidelines behind the recovery position and staying with the person.
- American Heart Association: Find a CPR class
Find an in-person or blended Heartsaver CPR AED class that ends with a skills check and a CPR card.
- American Red Cross: Take a Class
Find in-person and blended CPR, AED and first aid classes near you.