Emergency First Aid - All Ages
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This course deals with serious conditions and incidents involving adults, babies or children. You will learn what to do in an emergency, practise CPR skills and understand about treatment for common accidents and illnesses.

Who should attend?

This course is ideal for members of the public who want an overview of CPR and resuscitation as well as an idea as to how to cope with a variety of accidents and illnesses, for parents and carers and for people who require a basic working knowledge of First Aid for use in their workplace.

What you will learn?

The course offers a succinct combination of the Emergency Life Support and Basic First Aid courses, with less practical input and a faster delivery. It will cover care of the unconscious adult who is either breathing, or not-breathing as well as the treatment of commonly occurring accidents and illnesses.

Course content- (for guidance only, will be adapted according to individual needs)

• Action at an emergency – priorities of treatment

• Care of the adult, baby or child who is unconscious but breathing – Recovery position

• Care of the adult who is unconscious and not breathing – CPR differences between adult, baby & child CPR

• Management of the casualty with a possible spinal injury

• Choking – theory and practical

• Drowning

• What to put in your First Aid Kit

• Major and minor bleeds, embedded objects, grazes, amputated parts, knocked out teeth, objects in eyes, ears and nose, nose bleeds, bruising...

• Burns & electric shock

• Anaphylaxis (allergic reaction)

• Poisoning

• Head injury – concussion, compression & skull fracture

• Breaks, sprains and dislocations

• Treatment of all forms of shock.

• Treatment for medical conditions such as; febrile convulsions, diabetes, epilepsy, asthma.

Course duration

Approx. 3 hours

Assessment and certification

Continuous assessment by trainer.

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