Emergency Response / First Aid – basic

General · Health · Classroom · Certificate: Aviato Academy

Target Audience

All staff members tasked by employers with providing first aid pending the arrival of professional assistance.

Objectives

These training and refresher sessions ensure that emergency responders gain the knowledge and skills necessary to recognise life-threatening medical conditions and subsequently provide fundamental first aid while awaiting the intervention of specialised services.

Course content

1: Basic principles (3h)

• Role of emergency responders
• Instructions for using the available equipment
• Importance of registering incidents and actions
• Understanding the importance of hygiene to ‘first aid procedures’
• Accurate analysis of medical conditions and circumstances
• Making casualties comfortable prior to evacuation
• Relocation and evacuation of casualties

2: Support of vital functions (6h)

• First aid for unconscious casualties 
• Administering first aid to casualties with breathing difficulties
• Recognising casualties experiencing chest pain
• Performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Basic resuscitation guidelines
• AED

3: Other conditions (6h)

• Recognising serious disorders
• General first aid principles
• First aid for cardiovascular disorders
• First aid for bleeding
• First aid for skin wounds
• First aid for bone, muscle and joint injuries & trauma
• First aid for head and spinal wounds
• First aid for burn wounds
• First aid for eye injuries
• First aid for conditions of the nervous system
• First aid for poisoning