Description

Did you know that 25% of emergency room visits could be avoided if people knew basic first aid and CPR, thus saving $9 billion dollars in health care costs each year?

Knowing appropriate action to take in an emergency until professional help arrives is critical to saving lives. This course has been designed to meet the latest CPR and ECC Guidelines by using extensive research and testing to improve mastery and retention over the long-term. This comprehensive course is taught in a dynamic, hands-on way with industry-leading curriculum and content from the expert in occupational first aid training.

Students will learn how to:

• Recognize a medical emergency
• Handle breathing and cardiac emergencies
• Act appropriately and effectively and sustain life until professional help arrives
• Prevent disease transmission
• Identify and care for bleeding, sudden illness and injuries

Course content includes topics such as basic life support, recovery position, choking, heart attack and chest pain, bleeding and wound care, shock, burns, serious injuries, bone, joint, and muscle injuries, sudden illnesses, poisoning, cold and heat emergencies, and rescuing and moving victims.

This course is ideal for emergency response teams, safety personnel, supervisors, general public, and others seeking certification.

Each student will receive the 64-page workbook with full-color photographs, illustrations and skill demonstrations, the Pull-out First Aid Quick Guide, Course DVD with Video-Self-Instruction (VSI) training, and nationally recognized course completion cards. Certification is valid for 2 years.