First Aid & CPR for HCP

 
 

Course Description

The Standard First Aid CPR and AED for HealthCare Providers Course contains up-to-date content and science from the 2010 Guidelines for First Aid, CPR and ECC. In this course, you will learn the essential skills of patient care to protect and support the life of a suddenly ill or injured person until emergency medical services arrive. Instruction will cover first aid skills such as those that help in the control of bleeding, shock management, stabilizing fractures and dislocations. The Standard First Aid BLS for Healthcare Provider © course encompasses the full content of the Standard First Aid course and the additional course content of the HSF Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider © program. The addition of the BLS for Healthcare Provider ©class is designed to teach a variety of health-care professionals how to recognize a number of life-threatening emergencies, how to provide CPR, how to use an AED and how to relieve choking in a safe, timely and effective manner.

At the completion of this course, student will be able to:

  • Emergency Scene Management

  • Shock, Fainting and Unconsciousness

  • Bleeding and Wounds

  • Asthma and Allergies

  • Head, Spinal and Pelvic Injuries

  • Diabetic Emergencies

  • Seizures

  • Respiratory and Cardiovascular Emergencies

  • Burns

  • Child/Infant CPR and Choking

  • Secondary Survey

  • Bone, Joint and Muscle injury

  • PoisoningEye Injuries

  • Chest injuries

  • Environmental Illness & Injuries

  • Lifts and Carries

  • Multiple Casualty Management

  • Key changes in basic life support, reflecting the new science from the 2010 Guidelines for CPR and ECC

  • Critical concepts of high-quality CPR

  • The Chain of Survival™

  • One-rescuer CPR and AED for adult, child and infant

  • Two-rescuer CPR and AED for adult, child and infant

  • Differences between adult, child and infant rescue techniques

  • Bag-mask techniques for adult, child and infant

  • Rescue breathing for adult, child and infant

  • Relief of choking for adult, child and infant

  • CPR with an advanced airway