CPR-C & AED in Calgary

CPR Level C covers adults, children and infants. Level A covers adults only. That single difference decides which course you should be sitting in, and the letter on your certificate is what an employer, a licensing body or a sports organization reads. The Canadian Red Cross defines the levels, not us.

If a child or a baby could ever be the person in front of you, Level C is your course. Parents and grandparents, teachers and education assistants, coaches, day home and child care staff, babysitters, camp and swim staff, and anybody working somewhere the public walks in with a stroller: compressions on a small child and on an infant are not the same technique as compressions on an adult, and rescue breathing is different again.

If your world is genuinely adults only, a machine shop, a warehouse crew, an adult-only worksite, Level A exists for exactly that, and we would rather you read its page than sit through infant skills you were never asked for. When the wording you were given says nothing more specific than CPR certified, ask the person who wrote it which level, or send it to us and we will read it with you.

Because this is a Canadian Red Cross course, the Red Cross owns the curriculum and we teach to their standard, so we are not going to reprint their lesson list here. What is ours to describe is the room. You are on the floor, on your knees, over a manikin, for longer than most people expect, and you do it again after you have done it once. Nobody learns this from watching.

You work across the full range: adult manikins, child-sized technique, and infant manikins that fit along your forearm. The transitions between them are where most people discover what they did not know, and the transitions are exactly what gets practised until they stop feeling strange.

What Delta adds is context from people who have run real cardiac arrests. Our instructors work as paramedics, firefighters and emergency professionals, so the scenarios run the way calls actually go: an awkward spot on a hard floor, a bystander who wants to help but does not know how, a phone on speaker, and a patient who does not look like a clean classroom demonstration.

Your fee includes a hard-shell pocket mask: the real clamshell mouth-to-mask device, with the one-way filter valve, the elastic strap and the case. It comes out of its packaging in class, you train with it on the manikins, and then it goes home with you.

Nobody hands you a mask another class used and wiped down. Yours is new, and after the course it lives wherever you might one day need it: the kitchen drawer, the glovebox, the first aid kit at work.

Level C fits anyone whose life includes children, and anyone whose employer or organization asked for CPR without naming a level. It is the default answer for coaches, teachers, child care staff, new parents and grandparents, and the person at work who volunteered to be the one who knows what to do.

Book something else in two cases. If the wording you were given includes first aid, bleeding, burns, breaks, medical emergencies, then a CPR-only course will not cover it, and the Intermediate First Aid course has CPR-C built in already. If the wording says Basic Life Support or health care provider CPR, that is a different certificate aimed at people working in health care, and the BLS page is where to look.

We would rather have that conversation before you register than after. Send us the exact sentence you were given and we will tell you honestly which course it points at.

Certification is not automatic. You attend the full course and demonstrate the skills to the instructor, on the floor, to the Red Cross standard. Nobody is passed on attendance alone, and that is deliberate: the certificate is meant to mean that somebody watched you do it properly.

What you receive is a Canadian Red Cross CPR Level C & AED certificate. The validity period is set by the Canadian Red Cross and printed on the certificate itself, so read the date the day you get it and put a reminder in your calendar a few months ahead. Renewing before the date passes is always simpler than letting it lapse.

Register with your legal name spelled exactly the way an employer will expect to see it. That spelling is what gets printed, and correcting it afterwards takes considerably longer than typing it carefully the first time.

Come dressed to work on the floor: clothing you can kneel and lean in, closed shoes, hair tied back. Compressions are physical, and you will be down over a manikin for a decent stretch of the session. Bring water and something to write with.

If you have an injury, a mobility limitation, a hearing consideration or anything else that changes how you take part, tell us when you register rather than on the day. We can plan around most things with notice and almost nothing on the spot.

If you are booking for a group, ask about onsite delivery. We bring the course to worksites and organizations in Calgary, in the Leduc and Edmonton region, elsewhere in Canada, and internationally on request, for an additional fee covering travel and setup.

Public sessions run in Calgary, with dates in Leduc through the year.

We also deliver this course at your worksite for groups, useful for crews who can’t release staff to travel. Onsite delivery carries an additional fee on top of per-person pricing. Request an onsite quote.

We travel for private and group training across Canada, and internationally by arrangement. If you’re outside Alberta, tell us where you are and we’ll price it.