ACLS Recert Helps Professionals Prevent Leading Causes of Death

If you are a healthcare professional considering obtaining your advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) certification or you are in need of your ACLS recert, consider this: healthcare practitioners with ACLS training have the ability to treat many of the leading causes of injury and prevent many of the leading causes of death in the U.S.

Heart Complications

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease is the overall leading cause of death for people in the United States. Heart disease can cause a number of complications that are identified and treated through ACLS protocol, including:

Heart failure
Heart attack
Stroke
Sudden cardiac arrest

Unintentional Injuries

Reports from the CDC showed that unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death for ages 1 to 44 in the United States. The overall leading causes of injury death, for which treatment protocol is covered in ACLS training and online ACLS recert, include unintentional drowning, unintentional suffocation and unintentional poisoning.

Unintentional drowning is the leading cause of injury death for children ages 1 to 4, and ranks within the top 10 causes for injury death for five different age groups.
Unintentional suffocation is the ninth leading cause of injury death in the United States overall and ranks within the top 10 causes of injury death for six different age groups.
Unintentional poisoning is the second overall leading cause of injury death in the United States overall and ranks within the top 10 causes of injury death for seven different age groups.

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