Emergency First Responders are the first to arrive at the scene of an accident. They are sometimes required to deal with serious medical emergencies until the arrival of the Emergency Medical 福利在线免费 or until the arrival of expert medical care, and support casualties with simple interventions that may go beyond the scope and purpose of Basic First Aid. To this end, this course builds on the principles of Basic First Aid and introduces additional knowledge and skills that are required to address immediately life-threatening conditions.
This Emergency First Responder course is primarily designed for first responders who have a limited medical background, and require extended / advanced first aid training to provide immediate emergency care to a casualty while waiting for an ambulance or while waiting for expert/definite medical care. However, in view of its content and structure, this course can also serve as a knowledge and skill upgrade for first aid instructors, and as a refresher course for healthcare professionals who are not directly involved in the Emergency Medical 福利在线免费, but who can encounter serious medical emergencies during patient care.
Topics covered include:
- Scene assessment & scene safety
- Casualty assessment & priorities of care
- Communication & documentation of care
- Catastrophic bleeding
- Cardiac arrest
- Airway compromise
- Loss of consciousness
- Anaphylaxis
- Hypoxia
- Shock
- Sudden acute illness
- Serious trauma
Skills covered include:
- Casualty assessment
- Adult & paediatric basic life support (CPR & AED)
- Bag-valve-mask ventilation
- Use of simple airway adjuncts & suctioning
- Emergency oxygen administration
- Epinephrine auto-injector
- Wound packing and haemostatic agents
- Tourniquet application
- Splinting
- Helmet removal
- Assisting spinal motion restriction (incl. C-collar application, log-rolling, spinal board
- Pelvic binding
Main Reading List
- BTEC. (2017). First person on scene: FPOS (2nd ed.). Pearson. [Available at library.]
Supplementary Reading List
- European Resuscitation Council. (2021). ERC Guidelines 2021:Basic Life Support. Retrieved May 7, 2023, from https://cprguidelines.eu/
- National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians. (2020). PHTLS: Prehospital trauma life support for first responders (9th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
- Pilbery, R., & Lethbridge, K. (2016). First responder care essentials. Class Professional Publishing. [Available at library.]
- Resuscitation Council UK. (2021). 2021 Resuscitation guidelines. Retrieved May 7, 2023, from https://www.resus.org.uk/library/2021-resuscitation-guidelines
- Schottke, D. (2016). Emergency medical responder: Your first response in emergency care (6th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. [Available at library.]
- St John Ambulance, St Andrew鈥檚 First Aid and the British Red Cross. (2021). First aid manual (11th ed.). Dorling Kindersley.
