First Aid not only for divers.

Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR) teaches participants how to respond to life-threatening emergencies. The course focuses on primary care through a combination of knowledge development, skill development and realistic scenario practice to make sure participants have the confidence in their ability to provide care when emergency situations arise. Emergency First Response Secondary Care (first aid) covers injuries or illnesses that are not immediately life threatening. Participants focus on secondary assessment and first aid through knowledge development, skill development and realistic scenario practice.

Skills taught in this course:

• Scene Safety Assessment
• Universal Precautions
• Communicable Disease Protection, including barrier use
• Primary Assessment
• Rescue Breathing
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Conscious and Unconscious Obstructed Airway Management
• Serious Bleeding Management
• Shock Management
• Spinal Injury Management
• Injury Assessment
• Illness Assessment
• Bandaging
• Splinting for Dislocations and Fractures

The more well educated emergency first responders are around, the better are my chances in the unlikely event I personally needed help, no? Therefore this course is given practically for free, you just pay my expenses and the material.