Calgary / FR-R + BLS
Apr 5 to Apr 7, 2027
Traditional · 3 sessions
Calgary, AB, 1550 5 St SW #300Professional responder
First Responder Recertification in Calgary
Renew your First Responder certification before it expires.
20 hoursBLS includedYour certificate must not have expired
Register for this course$400.00 + GST & applicable taxes
See datesSee how the responder courses fit togetherDates, seats, prices, and course details shown here are reference information and are confirmed when you register.
FR-RCalgary
Leduc
Know before you book
Length
20 hours over 3 days (class days 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., breaks included). Certification needs full attendance.
Prerequisites
A current Canadian Red Cross First Responder certificate. It must not have expired.
Certificate
First Responder is valid for 3 years, and Basic Life Support for 1 year.
What you’ll be able to do
Five of the 45 skills you practise on this course. Choose one to see it.
Airway and breathing
Bag valve mask
You squeeze a bag-valve-mask to breathe for a manikin, on your own and as a pair with one person sealing the mask and one squeezing. The chest rising tells you it is working.
Airway and breathing
Oxygen therapy
You set up an oxygen cylinder and regulator yourself and choose the right mask or nasal cannula for the person in front of you. You learn to give it when your findings call for it.
Head and spine
Extrication vest
You fit a vest-style device around someone still sitting, such as a driver in a car, so the head, neck and back stay still as they come out. You practise it with a partner holding the head.
Head and spine
Backboard rolls
You and your team roll a person onto a backboard from face up, face down and on their side, while one responder holds the head and neck steady and calls every move, so the body turns as one.
Head and spine
Helmet removal
You and a partner take a helmet off someone with a possible neck injury, one holding the head and neck steady while the other eases the helmet free. You practise the handover so the head stays still throughout.
Included certificates
Basic Life Support
Basic Life Support is part of this course and comes with its own Red Cross certificate. It is the provider level of CPR: adults, children, babies and newborns, with a bag valve mask and an AED.
What it covers
From a student on this course
“I completed a First Responder recertification course through Delta Emergency Support Training and I cannot say enough good things about this company.”
Shelby WogsbergFirst Responder recertification · Calgary
Ready to take this course? $400.00 + GST & applicable taxes
Course details
The facts
- Certificates
- First Responder Valid for 3 years
- Basic Life Support Valid for 1 year
- Duration
- 20 hours over 3 days class days 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., breaks included
- Locations
- Calgary, AB, 1550 5 St SW #300 Leduc, AB, 4810 50th Ave Suite 100
- Price
- $400.00 + GST & applicable taxes (charged at checkout for your province)
- Prerequisites
- A current Canadian Red Cross First Responder certificate. It must not have expired.
- CPR / BLS
- BLS included
What is BLS?
BLS is Basic Life Support CPR, also known as Healthcare Provider CPR. It covers adults, children, babies and neonates.
It is a professional level CPR course, used by firefighters, nurses, paramedics, doctors and other healthcare workers.
More about the ages this covers
How this course runs
Traditional
In the room- How it runs
- Three days in class.
- Class times
- 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- Whole course
- 20 hours in total
Public sessions run in Calgary, with dates in Leduc through the year.
- Leduc / FR-R + BLS
Apr 5 to Apr 7, 2027
Traditional · 3 sessions · Waitlist only
Leduc, AB, 4810 50th Ave Suite 100 - Calgary / FR-R + BLS
Dec 6 to Dec 8, 2027
Traditional · 3 sessions
Calgary, AB, 1550 5 St SW #300 - Leduc / FR-R + BLS
Dec 6 to Dec 8, 2027
Traditional · 3 sessions · Waitlist only
Leduc, AB, 4810 50th Ave Suite 100
Where we teach this course
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.
Our Calgary classroom
1550 5 St SW #300, Calgary
Street view image: Google Our Leduc classroom
4810 50th Ave Suite 100, Leduc
Street view image: Google
The full course
What you’ll be able to do
- Hold a current Canadian Red Cross First Responder certificate
- Refresh the assessment and airway skills under supervision
- Renew the Basic Life Support component alongside it
A renewal, not the course over again
Everyone in the room has done this before, and that is the premise the whole three days rests on.Read moreShow less
Everyone in the room has done this before, and that is the premise the whole three days rests on. You are not being introduced to patient assessment. You are being watched doing it, corrected where it has drifted, and brought up to date where the standards have moved since you last sat the course. The hours are shorter because the starting point is higher, not because less is expected of you.
Everything is still assessed. A recertification that waved people through would be worth nothing to the employer reading the certificate, and the Canadian Red Cross sets what has to be demonstrated before one is issued. Coming in rusty is normal and is the reason to book. Coming in expecting a formality is not.
Your expiry date decides which course you can take
Your expiry date determines your eligibility.Read moreShow less
Your expiry date determines your eligibility. Recertification is only available while your certificate is still valid on the day of the course. Once it has expired, you need the full course, at a higher cost and with twice the classroom time. Check your expiry date and book before it.
If you are not sure of your date, send us your certificate before you book. We would rather check it with you than have you book the wrong course.
What the 20 hours cover
The First Responder skill set, run as a renewal: patient assessment and history taking, airway and breathing management, oxygen and ventilation, bleeding control and shock, spinal motion considerations, and the scenario work that puts all of it together while a clock runs.Read moreShow less
The First Responder skill set, run as a renewal: patient assessment and history taking, airway and breathing management, oxygen and ventilation, bleeding control and shock, spinal motion considerations, and the scenario work that puts all of it together while a clock runs.
Basic Life Support is included and issues its own certificate with its own expiry date. It is valid for one year, and the First Responder certificate for three. That is two dates to track rather than one, and the shorter one is the one people forget.
Three days, nine to five, breaks included. It is a working schedule rather than a gentle one, which is what fitting a renewal into three days actually means.
What letting it lapse costs you
The full First Responder course is 40 hours against this one's 20, and it costs more to sit.Read moreShow less
The full First Responder course is 40 hours against this one's 20, and it costs more to sit. That arithmetic is the only reason this page keeps pointing you at your expiry date instead of at a booking button.
There is no penalty for asking too early. There is a real one for asking too late, and it is paid in both money and days off work.
What the renewed certificate is
A Canadian Red Cross First Responder certificate, valid three years, with the Basic Life Support component valid one year.Read moreShow less
A Canadian Red Cross First Responder certificate, valid three years, with the Basic Life Support component valid one year. Delta issues it as a Canadian Red Cross Training Partner.
What that certificate is worth to a particular employer, school or regulator is their decision rather than ours. If you are renewing because a specific body asked you to, send us the exact wording they gave you, unedited, and we will tell you honestly whether this is the course that answers it, including telling you when only they can settle it.
Dates are still being set
This one is new to the public calendar.Read moreShow less
This one is new to the public calendar. The hours and the fee are settled and shown above; the dates are not yet. Tell us you are interested and we will come back with them, and we will check that your certificate will still be valid on the class date at the same time, so you are not holding a seat on the wrong course.
Who this course is for
- First Responder certificate holders whose certificate has not yet expired
- Fire, industrial and security responders whose employer requires the certificate current
- People who took First Responder as the exit from an EMR week and want to keep it live
Where this course fits
- Intermediate First Aid to Emergency Medical Responder: Required before EMR.
- Intermediate First Aid to Advanced First Aid: The usual next step.
- Advanced First Aid to Emergency Medical Responder: AFA to EMR Bridge, 16 hours over 2 days.
- First Responder to Advanced First Aid: FR to AFA Bridge, 40-60 hours.
- Emergency Medical Responder to Advanced First Aid: EMR to AFA Bridge, Approx. 9 hours.
- First Responder to Emergency Medical Responder: FR to EMR Bridge, 40 hours.
Intermediate First Aid to Emergency Medical Responder: Required before EMR
Intermediate First Aid to Emergency Medical Responder: Required before EMR
Intermediate First Aid to Advanced First Aid: The usual next step
Intermediate First Aid to Advanced First Aid: The usual next step
First Responder to Advanced First Aid: FR to AFA Bridge40-60 hours
First Responder to Advanced First Aid: FR to AFA Bridge40-60 hours
First Responder to Emergency Medical Responder: FR to EMR Bridge40 hours
First Responder to Emergency Medical Responder: FR to EMR Bridge40 hours
Advanced First Aid to Emergency Medical Responder: AFA to EMR Bridge16 hours over 2 days
Advanced First Aid to Emergency Medical Responder: AFA to EMR Bridge16 hours over 2 days
EMREmergency Medical Responder
80-100 hours over a multi-week cohort
Emergency Medical Responder to Advanced First Aid: EMR to AFA BridgeApprox. 9 hours
Emergency Medical Responder to Advanced First Aid: EMR to AFA BridgeApprox. 9 hours
Keeping a certificate current
Renew while your certificate is still current. Once it lapses, it is the full course again.
- First Responder Recertification20 hours over 3 days
- Advanced First Aid RecertificationApprox. 40 hours
- EMR RecertificationApprox. 40 hours
- Professional Responder Skills Refresher1 full day, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.A practice day. It does not renew a certificate.
Where to go next
English-language requirements
This course is taught and assessed in English. Professional responder training involves extensive medical terminology, clinical abbreviations, patient assessment, rapid communication, and complex practical scenarios.
Live classroom translation is not offered for this program.
Students must be able to understand instructions, communicate effectively during practical scenarios, and complete the required assessments in English.
Contact us before registering if you have questions about the language requirements.
The team
Meet the people behind Delta Emergency
Our instructors are working paramedics and firefighters who keep training in their own fields.
Meet the team
Ready to take this course? $400.00 + GST & applicable taxes
What does a class day look like?
Three weekdays in a row, 9:00 to 5:00, with breaks. That is a full teaching day each time, which is how the course fits into three days instead of spreading across four. The total hours and the fee are in the course details above, and the dates are still being set.
My certificate expired last month. Can I still recertify?
No. The Canadian Red Cross only allows recertification for a certificate that is still valid on the day of the course. Once it has expired, the way back is the full First Responder course. If you are not sure of your date, send us your certificate and we will check it.
Do I get Basic Life Support with it?
Yes. BLS is included and issues its own certificate, valid one year, on its own clock inside the three-year First Responder certificate.
What counts as a baby, a child or an adult, and which ages does this course cover?
This course carries BLS (Basic Life Support), which covers adults, children, infants and neonates. The Canadian Red Cross 2025 standards set the age groups this way. A baby is under 1 year old. A child is 1 year old up to the onset of puberty. An adult is anyone from the onset of puberty on. Puberty does not happen on a set birthday, so you judge it on the person in front of you. A 13 year old who has started puberty gets adult CPR, and one who has not is still a child. For an AED, use child pads on a child up to the onset of puberty or under 55 pounds (about 25 kg), and baby pads on a baby if the AED has them. If baby pads are not there, use child or adult pads. If child pads are not there, use adult pads. The Red Cross says adult pads are safe on a child or a baby, so do not wait for the right size. If you are training for a specific person, tell us their age and we will tell you which course fits.
Is live translation available for this course?
No. This course is taught and assessed in English, without live classroom translation. You need to understand instructions, communicate during practical scenarios and complete the assessments in English. Contact us before registering if you have questions.
Can I register on the same day as the course?
Online registration closes at 11:59 PM the night before an in-person course. If you need training today, call or text 825-883-3582 before class starts. We may be able to fit you in, depending on space and the instructor's approval. It is not guaranteed.
Online registration is closed. Does that mean the course is full?
No. Closed online only means the online booking window has ended. A seat may still be open, or open up if someone cancels. Call or text 825-883-3582 to check.
What if I arrive late?
Certification needs full attendance and every required skill. Arriving late can mean we cannot certify you that day. If you are running late, call or text as early as you can so we can tell you what is possible.
Cancellation, transfer, and refund terms are shown before payment and confirmed at registration. Not sure which course fits? Email us and we’ll help.
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