This course covers everything you learned on the initial first aid at work course, giving delegates the opportunity to practice skills they may not have used, updating learners on any clinical changes and making sure that first aiders are still capable of helping safely in a first aid situation.
The following topics are covered include helping a casualty who:
•Is unresponsive and breathing
•Is unresponsive and not breathing, including how to use of an automated external defibrillator (AED)
•Is choking
•Is feeling faint
•Is bleeding, including life-threatening bleeding and the use of haemostatic dressings and tourniquets
•Is suffering shock and internal bleeding
•Has been poisoned
•Has a head injury
•Has hypothermia, heat exhaustion or heat stroke
•Has an injury to a bone, muscle or joint (including spinal injuries)
Learners will also be able to help a casualty who is having a:
•Seizure
•Heart attack including the administration of aspirin
•Angina attack
•Stroke
•Asthma attack
•Severe allergic reaction
•Diabetic emergency
The course also includes information on:
Assessing a casualty
•Monitoring a casualty
•Where to get help
•Electrical incidents
•Accident recording and reporting
•The control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH)
