First Responder CPR BLS
Comprehensive first aid and CPR skills for professional first responders or those training to become first responders. Course teaches the patient assessment model, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, hemorrhage control, and care for a variety of acute and chronic conditions. Participants will be engaged in dynamic training techniques including video, media presentations, skills demonstrations, practice sessions, discussions and scenarios based on real-life situations.
- 100% attendance and participation.
- 75% min. a passing grade on a written.
- Successfully complete minimum of one practical scenario
- closed book knowledge evaluation; and adherence to the Fundamental Principles.
- 3-year certification in First Responder, BLS and AED
- The Professional Responder
- Responding to the call
- Infection prevention and control
- Anatomy and physiology
- Assessment
- Airway management and respiratory emergencies
- Circulatory emergencies
- Shock
- Hemorrhage and soft tissue trauma
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Chest, abdominal and pelvic injuries
- Head and spinal injuries
- Acute and chronic illnesses
- Poisoning
- Environmental illnesses
- Pregnancy, labour and delivery
- Special populations
- Crisis intervention
- Reaching, lifting and extricating patients
- Multiple-casualty incidents
- Canadian Red Cross Emergency Care for Professional Responders Reference Ebook
- Canadian Red Cross Emergency Care for Professional Responders Workbook Ebook