Overview
This is a three-day course and is aimed at those who are first aiders in a workplace or anyone wanting to gain knowledge and practical skills of advanced first aid to deal with first aid emergencies. It is certificated for three years.
Minimum entry requirements
You must be at least 16 years old.
What you study
- Brief applied anatomy and physiology of main body systems.
- Examination of a casualty.
- Assessing the situation.
- Recognition and care of unconscious casualty.
- Recovery position.
- Airway and breathing.
- Asphyxia, management of chocking.
- Bleeding and clinical shock.
- Signs and symptoms and first aid management of burns, scalds and electrical injuries.
- CPR adults, babies and infants.
- Fractures.
- Head/Spinal Injuries.
- Poisons.
- Seizures, Heart attack, Stroke, Diabetes.
- Asthma.
- Anaphylactic shock.