Description
COURSE OUTLINE
FIRST AID LESSONS
- First Aid Basics: Duties and Key Steps
- Rescuer duties
- Victim and Rescuer safety
- Expose to blood
- Safe glove removal and disposal practice
- Phoning for help
- Scene and victim assessment practice
- After the emergency
- Review questions from Instructor
- Medical Emergencies
- Breathing problems
- Use of inhaler
- Choking
- Treating allergic reactions
- Use and disposal of an epinephrine pen practice
- Identifying and helping a heart attack victim
- Fainting
- Diabetes and low blood sugar
- Identifying and helping a stroke victim
- Seizure
- Shock
- Review questions from Instructor
- Breathing problems
- Injury Emergencies
- Stopping bleeding you can see practice
- Wounds
- Bleeding from nose, mouth
- Tooth and eye injuries
- Penetrating and puncturing objects
- Amputation
- Bleeding you cannot see
- Head, neck, and spine injuries
- Broken bones and sprains
- Burns and electrical injuries
- Review questions from Instructor
- Environmental Emergencies
- Bites and stings
- Heat-related emergencies
- Cold-related emergencies
- Poison emergencies
- Review questions from Instructor
CPR/AED LESSONS
- Introduction
- Compressions
- Deliver breaths
- Compressions with breaths
- AED use
- Assessment and activation of emergency response
- Put it all together
- CPR/AED skills test