Emergency BASIC first-aid course
The main objective of our Emergency first-aid course is for the students to have the knowledge and hands-on classroom experience in reacting to an emergency situation. After completing our emergency first-aid course the student will know the three key points to first-aid: preserve life, prevent further harm, and promote recovery. Our Emergency first-aid course includes the following:
The main objective of our Emergency first-aid course is for the students to have the knowledge and hands-on classroom experience in reacting to an emergency situation. After completing our emergency first-aid course the student will know the three key points to first-aid: preserve life, prevent further harm, and promote recovery. Our Emergency first-aid course includes the following:
- Occupational health and safety information
- Emergency fist-aid care/medical services/activating EHS
- Roles of the first-aid provider/the law
- Recognizing an emergency/deciding to help
- Personal safety/preventing disease/using barriers (gloves, masks, etc.)
- Basic life supporting skills/ABCs
- Primary assessment
- Secondary assessment
- Protecting the airway/recovery positions/moving patients
- Circulation/signs/locating/understanding
- Spinal injuries/recognizing/moving/helping
- Unresponsive patients
- Rescue breathing
- CPR skills - a major portion of the course- infant, child and adult
- Heart attack/stroke
- Heart disease factors/stroke factors
- Choking- infant, child, and adult
- Bleeding/shock
- Nosebleeds
- Infectious diseases
- Ongoing assessment
- Chest problems
- Severe abdominal pain
- Breathing difficulty
- Mechanism for significant injury
- Physical assessment
- Patient history/keeping records
- Moving patients
- AED
- Amputation
- Impaled objects
- *Although, not required, the following is included on a smaller scale depending on which topics are of special interest to the students:
- Bites/stings, burns, heat exposure, cold exposure, chest injuries, eye injuries, head injuries, muscle injuries, bone injuries, splints, slings, soft tissue injuries, allergies, asthma, diabetic emergencies, poisoning, seizures, and therapeutic use of heat, and cold.
- Pregnancy complications, scalp, ear, nose, and tooth injuries, snakebites, spider bites, marine animal stings, tick bites, human and animal bites, trench foot, photokeratitis, and triage.