First Aid for Babies
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This course deals with serious conditions and incidents involving children and infants. You will learn what to do in an emergency, practise CPR skills specific to this age group and understand about treatment for common accidents and illnesses in very small children.

Who should attend?

This course is ideal for NCT groups, all parents, grandparents or guardians who care for young children and babies and who are unable to attend the more in-depth Essential Life Support and Basic First Aid Courses.

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. The course covers care of the unconscious infant or child who is either breathing or not-breathing and treatment of commonly occurring accidents and illnesses in very young children.

Course content

• Action at an emergency – priorities of treatment

• What to do if your baby is unconscious but breathing – Recovery position

• Treatment of an unconscious, non-breathing baby/child – baby & child CPR

• Choking – theory and practical

• Drowning

• What to put in your First Aid Kit

• Major and minor bleeds and amputated parts

• Burns & electric shock

• Head injury – concussion, compression & skull fracture

• Febrile convulsions & hypothermia

• Meningitis & septicaemia

Course duration

Approx. 3 hours

Assessment and certification

Continuous assessment by trainer.

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