You may have obtained CPR Certification from American Heart Association and prepared to offer CPR to any heart attack victim in your family, neighbor or community. But, it is also common fact that if you do not get chance to use your CPR knowledge and skill for long time, say 1 year or 2 year, your CPR knowledge may diminish and you may not be as efficient in providing CPR as you should be.
These reasons make it necessary that you must get CPR Recertification for keeping your knowledge of CPR rescue aid of mouth-to-mouth respiration and chest compression or using an automated extern defibrillator (AED) in current level. You never know, when you may have to make use of your CPR skill.
CPR Recertification can be completed online through American Heart Association or through classes of American Red Cross, YMCA, fire department or other emergency rescue classes. The necessity of CPR knowledge updates has also urged American Red Cross to offer annual re-certification.
In general after every 2 years, it becomes essential to get CPR Recertification to maintain your CPR skill in current level. As per Occupational Safety and Health Administration, in order to update the knowledge of CPR, it is essential that emergency employees, such as firefighters and emergency medical technicians, ski patrol, rescue professionals, doctors, nurses, licensed physical therapists, common individuals, chiropractors, dentists and other emergency health care provider must complete refresher course every six (6) months. In addition they must also keep their knowledge update for the use of automated extern defibrillator (AED).
It is also necessary to remember that if you are really keen to refresh your knowledge of CPR, you need not attend regular classes for CPR Re-certification. You can go through periodical review on CPR, go through CPR Videos, illustrations, practice session on dummy and other materials that can keep your CPR knowledge to current level. You can also attend American Heart Association or Red Cross sanctioned online CPR AED courses available, for refreshing your cpr guidelines.