Course Description
First Responder
Learn the medical skills that will make you an asset to any community or First Responder environment, such as Fire Service, Law Enforcement, Workplace Response Teams, Sports Medicine professionals, Lifeguards, Ski Patrols, and other exciting industries where serious injuries and/or multiple casualties can more frequently occur. This 40 hour course will prepare you for patient assessment, CPR, hemorrhage control, and care for a variety of acute and chronic conditions. Participants will be engaged in dynamic training techniques including video and other media presentations, skills demonstrations, practice sessions, group discussions, and scenario re-enactments.
Students involved in this course will have an optional opportunity to ladder into the EMR Program click here (an additional 40 hours of training) which will be offered in early 2020.
First Responder 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
Includes any other content required by provincial legislation
Dates and Times:
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