Kalispell Regional Medical Center is an American Heart Association-designated Community Training Center (CTC). As a CTC, KRMC coordinates Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) for Northwest Montana. We support the American Heart Association's Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) mission "to reduce disability and death from cardiac and respiratory emergencies and stroke by improving the Chain of Survival in every community."

KRMC's CTC has over 120 trained instructors teaching basic and advanced life support to hundreds of Montanans each year. Our CTC instructors are committed to improving your chances of surviving a heart attack or other cardiac or respiratory emergency.

The Chain of Survival represents the steps that should be followed to improve survival from a stroke or cardiac event:

1. Early Access (Call 911)
2. Early CPR
3. Early Defibrillation
4. Early Advanced Care

Services of KRMC's CTC Include:

BLS, ACLS, and PALS Instructor and Instructor Trainer Courses

ECC Course Completions Cards to instructors for course participants

Instructor Database Management

Course Record Database Management

Approve Sites

Newsletter with latest information from American Heart Association

List of vendors to obtain ECC program textbooks and materials

Quality Assurance of Programs for AHA

 

Upcoming KRMC CTC Courses

Please call the KRMC CTC Coordinator at 406-751-5435 for information about current courses.

For more information:

For Course Descriptions, log on to the American Heart Association website: http://www.cpr-ecc.org

Currents Newsletter is a great source of information for instructors and is available at http://www.proed.net/ecc/currents/curr_menu.htm.

American Heart Association - www.americanheart.org