Emergency First Aid Fundamentals

Class Description

This intensive course teaches students how to perform immediate care for multiple types of injuries including how to stabilize spinal injuries; check and open airways; assess breathing and provide rescue breaths; options for moving an injured person; how to check secondary vital signs and perform a rapid trauma assessment; effective bleeding control including how to pack wounds and use compression bandages, tourniquets and chest seals; assessing and treating burns; musculoskeletal trauma and how to use commercial splints and create field-expedient options; head trauma including skull fractures, traumatic brain injury and concussions; trauma to the scalp, face, or eye; mass casualty incidents and implementing the triage system; field treatment of a heart attack including chest compressions and using an AED; assessing and handling diabetic emergencies; signs and symptoms of strokes; seizures and fainting; snakebites; hypothermia and hyperthermia; choking and the Heimlich maneuver; drug overdose; and building your own first aid kit. Although exceptionally informative and packed with training everyone should have, this class is not a certification course to become a medical professional and it also does not provide a substitution for seeking emergency medical care. This class includes many hands-on exercises and is excellent for learning first-line emergency treatment to render potentially life-saving medical care while awaiting the arrival of an EMS team. It is a very important skillset for all parents to possess as well as those caring for older loved ones. Ages 18 and over.