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: 3 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.
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