This class covers adult, child, and infant emergencies and care. This class covers emergency scene size-up and keeping yourself safe, legal liabilities, patient consent, including consent for minors, preventing infectious disease transmission, how to differentiate between responsive and non-responsive patients, and how to collect appropriate medical history from patients.
Learn how to respond to cardiac emergencies, including the signs and symptoms of heart attack in men and women and cardiac arrest. You will learn the difference between adult and pediatric cardiac emergencies, the specific techniques to use when doing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) on adults, children, and infants, including Automated External Defibrillator (AED) use and AED pad placement on adults, children, and infants.
Our Adult, Child, and Infant First Aid class covers the signs, symptoms, and treatment of common emergencies you may encounter. You’ll learn how to:
- Care for choking in adults
- Specific techniques to care for choking in children and infants
- What to do when someone faints
- Recognizing and responding to shock
- The signs and symptoms of stroke
- Controlling and bandaging bleeding
- When and how to use tourniquets
- Recognizing and treating diabetic emergencies
- What to do for seizures
- How to recognize and treat life-threatening allergic reactions (anaphylaxis),
- How to recognize and treat muscle, bone, and joint injuries
- When and how to use tourniquets
- Recognizing and treating diabetic emergencies
- Recognizing head, neck, and spinal injuries
- Signs and symptoms of concussions
- Breathing emergencies and asthma
- Life-threatening allergic reactions (anaphylaxis)
- Learn what defines a critical vs. non-critical burn, and how to treat various types of burns
- Heat-related illnesses such as heat stroke
- Recognizing and responding to cold-related illnesses, including hypothermia, and frostbite
- What to do for poisoning
- Specific techniques, or adaptations of techniques, for pediatric first aid emergencies.
Prerequisites: Students must be able to demonstrate understanding of class concepts, and physically perform the skills presented.
Course Length: 6.5 hours.
Certification: After successful completion of the class, students will receive an American Red Cross Basic Adult and Pediatric CPR/AED and First Aid Certification that is valid for two years. Certificates are digital (PDF files) and can be printed, saved, or emailed.
Standards: This class meets OSHA and workplace safety requirements.
Continuing Education Units: Continuing Education Units are available for this course. Please contact us for more information.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.