EFR Care for Children

Course Overview
The Emergency First Response Care for Children course is an innovative CPR, first aid and AED training course that teaches people how to provide emergency care for injured or ill children (ages one to eight) and infants less than one year old. You’ll learn about medical emergencies that children face and how they differ from adult conditions.

The curriculum also includes the importance of attending to basic emergency situations with children, the emotional aspects of caring for children, secondary care for children, and preventing common injuries and illnesses in children.

What will I do
CARE FOR CHILDREN COURSE 14 SKILLS
Scene Assessment and Barrier Use
One Rescuer, Infant CPR
One Rescuer, Child CPR
Primary Assessment
Serious Bleeding Management
Conscious Choking Child
Shock Management
Conscious choking Infant
Spinal Injury Management
Rescue Breathing - Infant
Rescue Breathing – Child
Injury Assessment
Bandaging
Illness Assessment

What will I do
If you interact regularly with children or are a parent you know that accidents happen. Fortunately, most often these incidents are insignificant, resulting in simple scrapes and bruises.
Children and parents generally accept that minor injuries and illnesses are part of growing up. However, there are times when children suffer from significant medical problems. Automobile accidents, serious falls, choking, serious bleeding, near drowning, poising and allergic reactions can be very frightening and devastating for children, parent and rescuers alike. By becoming an Emergency Responder and learning how to handle situations involving injured or ill children, you are empowered to make a difference. You can’t control all the variables, but you can offer assistance that may improve a child’s chances of a positive recovery. If you are willing to jump in and help, you become an important link between the problem’s onset and the arrival of professional medical personnel. Again you can’t guarantee the final outcome, but you’ll know that you did all that could be done.

As you’ll learn throughout this course, emergency procedures are as easy as remembering your ABCD’s. By approaching each medical emergency following the same steps in the same order, you can provide basic life support in the correct priority of care.
These steps are consistent with the prorates used by medical professionals. For life-threatening emergencies, your quick action can start a child down the road to recovery and make for a smooth transition to professional care. In the Emergency First Response Care for Children course you’ll also learn how to deal with injuries and illnesses that are not immediately life-threatening. You always start with the ABCD’s to ensure there’s no imminent threat, then go on to provide secondary care that reassures and reduces the risk of further harm.
The steps for this follow up care can help you determine whether professional medical treatment is necessary, or if basic first aid will solve the problem. Sometimes, secondary care is as simple as properly bandaging a wound and sending the child back out to play.