Paediatric First Aid
Course Length: 12 Hour
Course Cost: £
All Candidates once completed the course will be issued with a certificate and card to carry in your purse/wallet.
- Planning for First Aid Emergencies
- Dealing with emergencies
- Activating the emergency services and identifying the need to call theEMS
- First Aid kits and accident reporting
- Unconscious but breathing (Recovery Position)
- Resuscitation Procedures Appropriate to the Age of the Children being cared for
- Adult, Infant and Child CPR
- Drowning
- Choking and choking becoming unconscious after choking
- Recognising and Responding Appropriately to:
- Spinal Injury
- Shock
- Injury and Illness assessment
- Anaphylactic Shock
- Electric Shock
- Serious Bleeding and minor bleeding
- Burns and Scalds
- Suspected Fractures
- Head, Neck and Back Injuries
- Cases of Poisoning
- Foreign Bodies in Eyes and Noses
- Eye Injuries
- Bites and Stings
- Effects of Extreme Heat and Cold
- Febrile Convulsions
- Emergency Needs of Children with Chronic Medical Conditions: Epilepsy, Asthma, Sickle Cell Anemia and Diabetes
- Meningitis and other Serious Sudden Illnesses