Objectives
Candidates will practise and be assessed on the skills needed to administer first aid to a casualty who is:
- unconscious
- not breathing
- choking
- bleeding from a wound
- in shock
Outlines
- Define first aid, steps followed to conduct first aid, rights and duties when conducting first aid
- Background information
- Physiology and anatomy of different biological systems, and the vital signs (pulse, respiration, temperature, blood pressure)
- Basic Life supports
- The CAB steps, Air way obstruction handling, CPR
- Practical training of the day
- General examination (primary and secondary survey, Vital signs & Performing CPR.
- Definition, types, diagnosis, first aid procedures, transporting, and ways of prevention
- Hemorrhage Management
- Simple wounds and injuries
- Dealing with simple wounds; cleaning and dressing
- Loss of Consciousness
- Fainting and coma. Definitions, causes, diagnosis, differentiation, first aid procedures, and ways of prevention
- Ophthalmic (eye) injuries
- Differentiate between different injuries, first aid, and prevention
- Burns
- Definition, causes, classification, danger signs, first aid, and prevention
- Practical applications
- Handling fractured personnel, Splints, Bandages, Eye bandage, Revision for CPR.
- Definition, causes, first aid, and prevention of reoccurrence
- Poisoning
- Definition, causes and types, first aid, danger signs, and prevention
- Diarrhea
- Snakes & Scorpions bites
- Causes, first aid, danger signs, first aid, and prevention
- Suffocation
- Definition, causes, diagnosis, first aid, danger signs, and ways of prevention
- Heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and exposure to cold
Who Should Attend
- All safety & security staff
- All people in different places, activities, and risk situations