Essential First Aid for Adults
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This course deals with serious conditions and incidents involving adults. You will learn what to do in an emergency, practise CPR skills and understand about treatment for common accidents and illnesses in adults.

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 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 Essential 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 in adults.

Course content- (can be adapted according to individual needs)

• Action at an emergency – priorities of treatment

• Care of the adult who is unconscious and not breathing – CPR

• Care of the adult who is unconscious but breathing – Recovery position

• Choking – theory and practical

• What to put in your First Aid Kit

• What to do if someone is hurt

• Major and minor bleeds

• Burns & electric shock

• Anaphylaxis (allergic reaction)

• Poisoning: alcohol, drugs, accidental ingestion.

• Head injury – concussion, compression & skull fracture

• Breaks, sprains and dislocations

• Treatment of all forms of shock.

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

Course duration

Approx. 3 hours

Assessment and certification

Continuous assessment by trainer.

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