Description
A half day course designed to introduce learners to the techniques required for BLS.
Objectives:
- How to assess the collapsed casualty.
- Identify and demonstrate when and how to perform chest compressions and rescue breathes.
- Understand and use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
- Demonstrate the recovery position on an unconscious breathing casualty.
- Recognise and assist a choking casualty.
- Recognition and treatment; seizure and anaphylaxis.
What you will learn
At the end of the training session, candidates will have covered the following modules:
- The chain of survival.
- What is Basic Life Support.
- Unconscious casualty – primary survey.
- How to approach a casualty safely.
- How to check for a response.
- How to open the airway.
- How to perform a head-chin tilt lift.
- How to check for breathing.
- Understanding what agonal breathing is.
- How to perform chest compressions.
- How and when to give rescue breaths.
- How to perform continued CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation).
- Understand and use of a training AED (Automated External Defibrillator).
- How to recognise and treat a casualty with a FBAO (Foreign Body Airway Obstruction).
- How to recognise seizure and treat a casualty.
- How to recognise anaphylaxis and treat a casualty.
- How to put a breathing casualty into the recovery position.
- When, how and what to inform the emergency services.
- The reporting and recording process when in a working environment.
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