Basic First Aid

Course details

First Aid course is designed to cover medical techniques considered to be
within the responsibility of the occupational first aid attendance providing
emergency care in industry.

Intended Audience

Audiences include workplace first aid providers, emergency response
team members, firefighters, police officers, security personnel and adult
care personnel.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate the priority action approach (to the end of the primary survey) for conscious patients with a decreased level of consciousness. 
• Identify and manage critical interventions of the airway with C-spine control for conscious patients and patients with a decreased level of consciousness.
• Identify respiratory emergencies and manage critical interventions.
• Identify circulatory emergencies and critical interventions for conscious patients and patients with a decreased level of consciousness.
• Prepare patients for rapid transport in the supine and lateral positions.
• Conduct the secondary survey component of the priority action approach for patients in the Rapid Transport Category and patients in the first aid room.
• Assess, manage and identify the need for medical aid referral for soft tissue injuries.
• Identity and manage head, brain and spinal injuries for conscious patients and patients with a decreased level of consciousness.
• Identify and manage abdominal injuries, upper limb fractures and dislocations.
• Identify and manage environmental emergencies, lower limb fractures and dislocations.
• Describe how to identify and manage diabetic conditions and seizures.

General Outline

• First Aid Station Requirements
• Role of the First Aid Provider
• Approaching the Patient
• Sudden Cardiac Arrest
• Basic CPR Skills
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Care
• Foreign Body Airway Obstruction
• First Aid Assessment
• Caring for Serious Injury
• Burns
• Caring for Sudden Illness
• Poisoning
• Environmental Emergencies
• Additional Considerations during Emergencies
• Specific First Aid Topics on Specific First Aid Injuries
• Casualty Management

Assessment

(1) Written >75% of 25 question examination
(2) Observed reasonable performance of core skill learning objectives:

• Demonstrate how to put on and remove gloves
• Perform a head-tilt, chin-lift
• Properly clear and protect the airway
• Perform effective rescue ventilations
• Perform effective chest compressions
• Properly demonstrate initial assessment
• Demonstrate how to effectively care for an unresponsive patient
• Perform CPR
• Control bleeding and manage shock
• Perform the steps to manage a foreign body airway obstruction
• Recognize and provide first aid treatment for head, neck and back injury
• Recognize and provide first aid treatment for choking
• Recognize and provide first aid treatment for heat and cold related emergencies
• Recognize and provide first aid treatment for poisoning and severe allergic reactions
• Manually stabilize a swollen, painful or deformed limb
• Demonstrate how to move a patient to the supine position, maintaining C-spine control from the prone position.
• Demonstrate how to prepare a patient for rapid transport in the supine and lateral positions in no longer than 15 minutes from the approach to the patient.

Updated on 06 September, 2018