EMERGENCY FIRST AID WITH CPR
- Recognized by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
- 6.5-8 hours, scheduled at your convenience
- offering day, evening, weekday or weekend workshops at your location
COURSE AT A GLANCE
- Demonstrate an understanding of the goals of first aid
- Demonstrate an understanding of legal implications or providing first aid treatment
- Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of universal precautions, including barrier devices, washing hands and use of gloves
- Demonstrate an understanding of the anatomy and physiologyof the ABC priorities
- Demonstrate primary assessment of a victim including: scene survey, level of consciousness, airway, breathing circulation, major bleeding, mechanism of injury
- Demonstrate secondary assessment of a victim including: vital signs, heat-to-toe examination, history
- Demonstrate one-rescuer adult, child and infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a manikin and knowledge of the purpose of an AED and when to use it
- Simulate the treatment of an unconscious adult, child or infant with an obstructed airway; complications: a pregnant women and person who is obese
- Simulate the treatment of an unconscious adult, child or infant with an obstructed airway
- Demonstrate the effective direction of bystanders to activate EMS
- Demonstrate the recognition and care of a victim suffering from the following respiratory emergencies: hyperventilation, asthma
- Demonstrate the recognition and care of a victim suffering from: shock, heart attack or angina, external bleeding, stroke/transient ischemic attack
- Demonstrate the recognition and care of an unconscious victim, including a victim suffering from fainting