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First Aid - Basics

Incidents requiring first aid can happen anywhere and at any time. The first response to such an incident is the most important. First aid given at the scene can improve the chances of survival and recovery of a victim. This course presents ways to respond to basic first aid situations until the emergency medical services (EMS) personnel arrive. Ideal learners are all employees.

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Learning Objectives

Explain when you might be held accountable for a victim's outcome.
Assess scenes and victims before providing first aid.
Provide valuable information to emergency medical services.

Recall guidelines about when and how to move victims.
Recall basic first aid techniques for the treatment of breathing emergencies, choking, severe bleeding, shock, sractures, sprains, strains and
burns

Course Outline

1. Introduction
1. Welcome
2. Introduction
3. Learning Objectives
2. Definitions
1. What Is First Aid?
2. Knowledge Check: Attempting First Aid
3. Scene and Victim Assessment
1. Scene Assessment
2. Victim Assessment
3. Unresponsive Victim
4. Knowledge Check: What Would You Do?
5. Knowledge Check: What Would You Do? (continued)
4. Emergency Medical Services
1. Contacting Emergency Medical Services
2. Information for Emergency Personnel
3. Learning Activity: Talking to Emergency Personnel
5. First Aid Basics
1. Basics of First Aid
2. Moving a Victim
3. Knowledge Check: Should You Move the Victim?
6. Breathing Emergencies
1. Responding to Emergencies
2. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
3. CPR Steps: The C-A-B Sequence
4. Knowledge Check: What Should You Do?

7. Choking
1. Choking – Conscious Victim
2. Choking – Conscious Victim (continued)
3. Choking – Unconscious Victim
4. Learning Activity: Choking
8. Bleeding
1. Bloodborne Pathogens
2. Protection from Bloodborne Pathogens
3. Types of Bleeding
4. Control the Bleeding
5. Knowledge Check: Bleeding
6. Pressure Points
7. Embedded Object
8. Internal Bleeding
9. Learning Activity: Controlling Bleeding
9. Shock
1. Shock
2. Treatment for Shock
3. Knowledge Check: Shock
4. Learning Activity: Choose the Treatment
10. Fractures, Sprains and Strains
1. Musculoskeletal Injuries
2. Bone Fractures
3. Knowledge Check: Bone Fractures
4. Splints
5. How to Splint an Injury
6. Slings
7. Head, Neck and Back Injuries
8. Knowledge Check: What Would You Do?
9. Dislocations
10. Sprains and Strains
11. Treatment Summary – Musculoskeletal Injury
12. Learning Activity: Recognizing Injury Types
11. Burns
1. Burns
2. Critical Burns
3. Chemical Burns
4. Electrical Burns
5. Knowledge Check: Burn Treatment
12. Summary
1. Summary