Emergency First Aid Fundamentals

COURSE DETAILS

While most Americans are comfortable applying a simple bandage to deal with minor scrapes and cuts, the vast majority are unequipped to effectively handle severe, life-threatening injuries or illnesses, especially when every second counts.  The goal of Emergency First Aid Fundamentals is to help you gain the knowledge, confidence, and competence needed to deal with dozens of medical and traumatic emergencies while waiting for professional medical care to arrive or if delayed.

 

During this training course, you’ll do more than simply sit in a classroom learning about these topics.  Your instructor will work you through a dozen real-world scenarios using simulated patients and the actual products (or field expedients) that you’ll need to understand if you hope to save a life.  You will learn how to properly assess a patient and how to deal with significant issues such as venous and arterial bleeding, compromised airway, head, chest, and spinal injuries, broken bones, burns, heart attacks, seizures, strokes, and more!

 

In this course you will learn: ​

Patient Assessment

• Primary scene & patient assessment

• Secondary / Rapid Trauma Assessment

• Determining need and how to manually stabilize the spine

• Accessing airway

• Normal breathing rate and how to provide rescue breaths

• How to check a pulse and normal vital signs

• Skin perfusion test

• How to assess pupils

• How and when to conduct an emergency move

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Traumatic Emergencies

• Effective bleeding control

• How to estimate blood loss

• How and when to apply compression bandages, torniquets, and pack the wound

• Penetrating injuries to the torso and how to apply a chest seal

• Proper and effective wound maintenance

• How to identify and treat major burns

• How to treat and stabilize musculoskeletal trauma (Breaks, strains, & sprains)

• How to stabilize femur fractures

• How to stabilize pelvic fractures

• How to stabilize rib fractures and flail chest

• How to identify and treat head trauma

• How to treat eye injuries

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Medical Emergencies

• Signs and symptoms of cardiac compromise

• How to perform effective adult, child, and infant CPR/AED

• Diabetic emergencies explained

• Signs and symptoms of strokes, seizures, and syncope (fainting).

• How to treat environmental emergencies

• Signs, symptoms, and treatment of anaphylaxis shock and how an Epi Pen works

• How to treat snake bites and venomous snake bites

• Signs, symptoms, and treatment of hypothermia and hyperthermia

• Signs, symptoms, and treatment for dehydration, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke

• How to recognize choking and perform the Heimlich Maneuver

• Types, signs and symptoms, and how to treat for shock

• Drug overdoses and how Narcan works

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Building Your Own First Aid Kit

• Pros and cons of buying or building

• Identifying comfort and life saving items

• Creating a small, medium, and large first aid kit and trauma kit

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A course textbook ($35 value) is included in the cost of your course registration.  Those who complete this course shall receive a two-year certification in First Aid & CPR/AED.  This course is accepted by Girl Scouts Nations Capital to satisfy First Aider training requirements for Adult Volunteers.