About Cardiac Edge · Central Florida

Being certified is the standard. Being certified with an edge is the difference.

Cardiac Edge is an official American Heart Association Training Site serving all of Central Florida — built on one idea: you should leave a class with real confidence, not just a card.

Official AHA Training Site American Heart Association Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support, taught to the current AHA standard.
Led by a 20-year paramedic Every class is taught by a credentialed AHA instructor with two decades of real emergency-medicine experience.
100% satisfaction guarantee If you are not completely satisfied with your experience, we refund your course cost in full.
Our Philosophy

Why we teach the way we teach.

At Cardiac Edge we believe — whether you are a brand-new provider starting rotations, stepping into your first position in the medical field, or a seasoned professional — we all want to be the best provider we can be, for ourselves and for our patients.

Knowing this, we work tirelessly to provide a learning experience that is first and foremost fun and engaging, while making sure that whether you are building that initial foundation or reinforcing one, you receive both the knowledge and the hands-on skill practice to leave confident in your knowledge, skill, and ability to perform the AHA discipline course you just completed.

At Cardiac Edge we prove there is a difference between being certified, and being certified with an edge. Our confidence in our courses is the same confidence we will instill in you. If you want to be at the top of your game — to have the knowledge and skills that don't go unrecognized, with less of the everyday stress that real competence relieves — make your next course a Cardiac Edge course.

Give us one course to prove the Cardiac Edge difference. If you are not completely satisfied with your experience, we will refund your course cost 100%. That is how confident we are in the way we teach.
Learning concept illustration showing knowledge, training, hands-on practice, communication, motivation, and success around a central Learning cloud — the Cardiac Edge AHA training philosophy in Central Florida

Knowledge, hands-on practice, and confidence — the Cardiac Edge learning approach.

Meet Your Instructor

Jason Pellegrino

Cardiac Edge is led by Jason Pellegrino — a paramedic with two decades of frontline emergency-medicine experience and a credentialed American Heart Association instructor. He has spent his career doing the very skills these courses teach, and he brings that real-world perspective to every Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support class. The result is training that is relaxed, genuinely engaging, and grounded in what actually happens when seconds count.

20 years As a working paramedic in emergency medicine
AHA instructor Credentialed American Heart Association instructor
BLS & ACLS Initial and renewal certification, plus HeartCode skills sessions
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The Cardiac Edge Difference

What you actually walk away with.

A card is the paperwork. These are the things we care about you leaving with.

Confidence, not just a card You leave sure of your knowledge, your skills, and your ability to act — because that is what matters when it is real.
Hands-on skill practice Whether you are building a foundation or reinforcing one, you get the practice time that makes the skills stick.
Fun and engaging A class that holds your attention. Students consistently tell us the time flew and the material made sense.
Backed by a full guarantee We stand behind every course with a 100% satisfaction refund. The confidence is ours before it is yours.
Ready When You Are

Make your next course a Cardiac Edge course.

Initial and renewal BLS and ACLS classes plus HeartCode skills sessions, at our East Orlando and Celebration locations or on-site at your facility across Central Florida.

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