Emergency First Aid – Full Course / per student

Emergency First Aid  – Full Course provides the proper way to access a patient, deal with significant issues such as serious bleeding, chest injuries, a compromised airway, spinal injuries, broken bones, and more. Ultimately this course will show how to sustain the life of the patient until he or she can be delivered to the emergency room.

Key topics covered:

• Assessing the situation
• Determining scene safety
• Accessing and treating major life threats
• Stabilizing spinal injuries
• Airway, breathing and circulation
• Reading the patient
• Secondary assessment
• Emergency moves
• Cardiac compromise
• The chain of survival
• Diabetic emergencies
• Stroke
• Anaphylaxis
• Hypothermia
• Heat Stroke
• Shock
• Severe arterial bleeding
• Maintenance of a severe laceration
• Flail chest
• Sucking chest wounds
• Broken femur or pelvis
• Severe burns
• Breaks, strains and sprains