Course Content
- Preparation for leading trips into a wilderness environment
- First aid kits and contents for the urban/wilderness/remote environment
- Incident management and scene safety
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for first aid
- Infection prevention and control
- Primary Survey
- Treatment of the unconscious casualty
- Shock: definition, recognition and treatment (including Anaphylaxis)
- Angina and cardiac arrest including sudden cardiac arrest (SAC): recognition and treatment
- Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) for cardiac arrest (urban and remote)
- Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) for drowning (urban and remote) including cold water immersion.
- Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) for children and infants (urban and remote)
- Automated External Defibrillator (AED) operation
- Calling for appropriate help – 999/112/Mountain Rescue/Cave Rescue/Coastguard
- Disorders due to the effects of temperature extreme: hypothermia and hyperthermia
- Control of bleeding: appropriate methods of treatment and including catastrophic bleeding
- Burns
- Minor injuries
- Complimentary Emergency First Aid at Work Certification in addition to Wilderness First Aid 8hrs
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