EMERGENCY FIRST AID (TEACHERS)

"Essential skills that will help you save lives"

Nationally, 75,000 people every year die from a cardiac arrest before they reach hospital

275,000 people have a heart attack each year

Coronary Heart Disease is the biggest killer in this country

About 80% of Cardiac Arrests happen away from the hospital environment (home, work)

Bystander CPR can double the casualty's chances of survival

25,000 children are treated at A&E after choking

Choking is the third largest killer of Children (after road accidents and fires)

How this course can help you: Basic life support skills can, in the case of an emergency, save lives. Designed to deliver the theoretical aspects of basic life support skills, including CPR so to help users to develop sufficient knowledge to be able to respond effectively and confidently in an emergency situation such as when a person is unconscious. The training is accessed on-line with realistic scenarios taking the learner carefully through the signs to look out for and the procedures to be followed. Because the course is interactive, learners will be able to test their progress, and receive, on completing the End-of Course Assessment, a Certificate.

Course Content - scenario-based, interactive learning with self-testing and an End-of-Course Assessment with a focus on dealing with adult and child casualties:

Introduction:
Background
Pre-Course Test

Module 1: First steps in an emergency:

• Dealing with Emergency situations
• Helping a casualty who is conscious and able to talk
• Assessing an unconscious casualty
• Buying time: Time is crucial when the heart stops
• The chain of survival

Module 2: Keep the casualty alive

• Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• How to perform CPR
• Performing CPR on children
• Defibrillation/ Using an AED
• Helping someone who is choking
• How to put someone in the recovery position

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

Have an appreciation of the value of possessing basic life support skills

Have a clear understanding of what to do when faced with a casualty who is not breathing

Recognise the signs of a heart attack;

Be familiar with the concept of the chain of survival

Describe and deliver CPR

Know the difference between administering CPR to children and to adults

Have an appreciation of how defibrillators work and what impact early defibrillation has

Know, Step-by-step, how to use an AED

Know how to help someone who is choking - baby, child or adult

Be familiar with how and when to put someone in the recovery position

Know where to find support , advice and hands-on-training.