ERC
Immediate Life Support (ILS)
Healthcare professionals and hospital rapid-response (blue) teams.
The first minutes are decisive. ILS trains health professionals to manage the critically ill patient and cardiac arrest until the resuscitation team takes over.
No session is scheduled for this programme right now.
Taught in Greek. For a group — a company, school, team or organisation — that wants a seminar in English, we organise a separate class: write to us at info@lifesupporthub.edu.gr.
The programme
This is exactly the knowledge needed by the healthcare staff who make up the rapid-response (blue) teams of hospitals and health facilities. When a patient deteriorates, the first to reach them is rarely the full resuscitation team. It is the department's own staff, who must know what to do immediately and correctly.
What will you do on the course?
It is a one-day, multidisciplinary programme, built around the ABCDE approach to the deteriorating patient. Compared with BLS, it goes further into diagnostic skills: airway management, recognition of heart rhythm on the ECG and rapid, safe defibrillation, with an AED or a manual defibrillator. It follows the logic of Advanced Life Support, focusing however on the core knowledge and skills that every health professional needs in practice.
In this way, ILS acts as the frontline resuscitation programme for healthcare staff: the bridge between basic life support and specialist care.
As with BLS, the training is mainly hands-on: a little theory at the start, just enough to understand the framework you will be working in, and then practice, with your own hands, of exactly these skills.
Where are the courses held and what certification do you get?
Life Support Hub's first-aid courses are held mainly in Athens: our base is in Alimos, and classes are also held at partner organisations' premises across Attica. We also travel all over Greece, depending on the schedule and on partnerships, and for companies the training takes place on their own premises. On successful completion you receive Immediate Life Support (ILS) certification from the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), which is internationally recognised.
The certifying body
European Resuscitation Council
The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) is the European body that sets the guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It was founded in 1988 as a non-profit organisation, with the mission of "preserving human life by making high-quality resuscitation available to all". Its guidelines, updated every five years, are a point of reference across Europe. Through a network of national councils, the ERC trains around two million people a year in 56 countries. Programmes that follow its standard lead to an internationally recognised certification.
Visit the body’s websiteFrequently asked questions
Do I need any prior knowledge?
For most programmes, no — they start from zero. Where a prerequisite exists, the programme itself says so: the Basic Instructor Course, for example, requires an active ERC BLS or PBLS certification.
The programme I want has no scheduled session. What do I do?
Leave your email on the expression of interest page and pick the programmes you care about. As soon as a matching session opens, you will be the first to know.
Do you train schools and groups?
Yes. We offer free training to schools of every level and to the community, and through the Double Score programme a school can earn a free defibrillator. For a training at your own venue, write to us at info@lifesupporthub.edu.gr.
Can we have a seminar in English?
Yes, for a group. A company, school, team or organisation that wants a seminar in English gets a class of its own — write to us at info@lifesupporthub.edu.gr with the programme and roughly how many people. Our scheduled seminars are taught in Greek, and we do not run them bilingually: translating slows the training down.
How is the hands-on training run?
Everyone practises, however many people the session holds. In a large session, practice takes place in small groups. How many people a session holds in total depends on the venue, and differs from session to session.
Can I take a course online?
No. Every course is taught in person. Two of them — C-TECC for First Responders and ECSI Wilderness First Aid — have theory preparation you do online, on our training platform. After you register we enrol you on the platform and you receive an email with your login details; the platform holds your material and programme instructions.