COURSE DETAILS
Duration:40 hours
Cost:$529 + HST (Recertification: $379 + HST)
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.
Audience:
Professionals in a fire service, rescue team, workplace response team, sports-medicine professionals, lifeguards and ski patrol.
Prerequisites:
None
Completion Requirements:
100% attendance, skills demonstration, and 75% min. passing grade on written quiz
Certification:
3-year certification in First Responder (digital certificate issued upon successful completion
Recertification:
20 hours
Course Content:
- 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
Participant Materials:
- Canadian Red Cross Emergency Care for Professional Responders Reference Text
WSIB-approved