First Aid Courses

HSE and Resuscitation Council content-compliant

DAY ONE

• Roles and responsibilities

• Incident management

• The unconscious casualty - Fainting - Seizure, including febrile - Recovery position – adult, child and infant protocols*

• CPR and safe use of the AED – adult, child and infant protocols

• Choking – adult, child and infant protocols

• Bites and stings

• Anaphylaxis with auto-injector practice

• Poisonous substances *To allow for big children and work colleagues

DAY TWO

• Minor injuries

• Eye injuries and foreign objects

• External bleeding and shock bandaging

• Heat and cold injury

• Burns

• Electric shock

• Asthma

• Diabetes

• Meningitis, septicaemia and sepsis

• Bone, muscle and joint injuries with slings practice

• Head and spinal injuries with manual inline stabilisation exercises (MILS and the new spinal recovery position)

Outdoor-specific content – providing outdoor paediatric first aid specific to trips and forest school:

• Planning your trip

• Outdoor considerations

• Resources

• Welfare kit

• When to worry – dehydration, headache, earache and stomach ache