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Agenda
The purpose of the courses in the First Aid/CPR/AED program is to help participants recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac, breathing and first aid emergencies to know to give immediate care to a suddenly injured or ill person until more advanced medical personnel arrive and take over.
Learning Objectives
CPR/AED:
- Recognize the signals of a cardiac emergency.
- Identify the links in the Cardiac Chain of Survival.
- Describe how to care for a heart attack.
- List the causes of cardiac arrest.
- Explain the role of CPR in cardiac arrest.
- Demonstrate how to perform CPR.
- Recognize the signals of a breathing emergency.
- Demonstrate how to care for a person who is choking.
- Explain what defibrillation is.
- Explain how defibrillation works.
- Identify precautions to take when using an AED on a person in sudden cardiac arrest.
- Demonstrate how to use an AED.
First Aid:
- Identify the signals of common sudden illnesses.
- Describe how to care for common sudden illnesses.
- Describe how to care for someone who is having a seizure.
- Identify the signals of heat-related illnesses and cold-related emergencies.
- Describe how to care for heat-related illnesses and cold-related emergencies.
- Explain how to care for head, neck and spinal injuries.
- Identify signals of various soft tissue and musculoskeletal injuries.
- Describe how to care for various soft tissue and musculoskeletal injuries.
- Explain how to care for muscle, bone or joint injuries.
- Demonstrate how to control external bleeding.
- Identify signals of head, neck and spinal injuries
