CPR/First Aid

The CPR/AED/First Aid Training Program provides life-saving skills that will prepare you to recognize and care for a variety of first aide, breathing, and cardiac emergencies. Training levels include the public/worker and lay responder.

Participants Will Have the Opportunity to Learn:

• How to recognize an emergency.
• How to activate and work with the emergency medical services (EMS) system.
• Identifying how to reduce the risk of disease transmission when giving care.
• How to check a person who is responsive for life-threatening and non-life-threatening conditions.
• Explaining how to check an injured or ill person who appears to be unresponsive.
• Recognizing the signs and symptoms of a heart attack, and describe appropriate first aid care for a person who is showing these signs and symptoms.
• CPR and the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) for a person who is in cardiac arrest.
• Appropriate first aid care for a person who is choking.
• Recognizing the signs and symptoms of shock, and describe appropriate first aid care for a person who is showing these signs and symptoms.
• Recognizing the signs and symptoms of, and describe appropriate first aid care for sudden illnesses such as breathing emergencies, diabetic emergencies, seizures, and stroke.
• Describing and demonstrating methods used to control external bleeding, including the use of direct pressure and application of a commercial tourniquet
• Recognizing the signs and symptoms of burns, muscle, bone, joint injuries, and head, neck and spinal injuries.
• Recognizing the signs and symptoms of, and describe appropriate first aid care for environmental injuries and illnesses such as heat-related illnesses, cold-related illnesses and poisoning.