First AID

Course Outlook

Duration:

Programs	Days
First AID Theory & Practical	1

Course Content:

• Define First Aid
• Role of the First Aider
• Approaching the patient
• Key Aims of First Aid
  1. Preserve Life
  2. Prevent further harm
  3. Promote Recovery
• Key skills required for First Aid (ABC Life Cycle)
  1. Airway
  2. Breathing
  3. Circulation
• Conditions that often require First Aid
  1. Bleeding and shock
  2. Caring for injury
  3. Continuous Patient Care
  4. Caring for illness
• Common First Aid Cases
• Additional Considerations
• Class Evaluation

Performance Objectives:

This course will measure mastery on each of the following performance objectives:

• Provide first aid to shock victims
  1. Define shock.
  2. Select the method used to eliminate shock.
  3. List ways to treat a shock victim.
• Use first aid methods associated with CPR
  1. Describe the Heimlich maneuver.
  2. Explain CPR.
  3. Select the proper amount of breaths per minute when giving CPR.
• Provide proper first aid to a heart attack victim
  1. Select signs that someone is having a heart attack.
• Provide proper first aid to a bleeding victim
  1. Identify how often a tourniquet should be loosened to check bleeding.
• Properly react to a poisoning
  1. Choose the proper technique to dilute poison in a conscious victim.
• Follow proper actions to help a near-drowning person
  1. Select appropriate emergency actions to save a near-drowning person.