First Aid: Basic Life Support AM Session

Course Duration:

9.30am - 12.30pm

Target Audience:

All staff, volunteers, family carers, direct employers and their PA’s, excluding individuals working in HCC in-house services.

For HCC employees please contact acslearninganddevelopment@hertfordshire.gov.uk for alternative training.

Aim:

To teach you the first link in the chain of survival in adult basic life support (BLS). The syllabus follows the guidelines of the Resuscitation Council (UK) and includes the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) and the DRABCD approach to resuscitation

Learning Outcomes

Skills and knowledge highlighted in this training include

• An overview of the legal requirements
• Managing an incident and prioritising (primary & secondary assessment)
• Cardio pulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillators
• The recovery position and airway management
• Administer first aid to an unconscious casualty
• Principles of resuscitation
• Applied practical workstation and simulated practical assessment
• Choking