Adult First Aid & Stop Life Threatening Bleeding

Description

This course is intended for those who are not professional rescue personnel or healthcare providers.

The training program is for participants to gain or improve knowledge and skill proficiency in Adult First Aid and how to Stop Life Threatening Bleeding.

This program includes flexible instructional tools for developing proficiency via demonstration and prompted practice, including scenario-based problem-solving exercises with feedback to increase student confidence. Ultimately, our goal is that you not only have the knowledge, but also the confidence to execute.

Adult First Aid/Stop Life Threatening Bleeding Course Objectives:

• Summarize the basic legal concepts that apply to providing first aid and CPR AED.
• Recognize the first aid provider’s role, responsibilities, and priorities.
• Recognize the main elements to the procedure for first aid and CPR AED.
• Explain the Adult First Aid Procedure.
• Describe how to recognize and provide first aid treatment for injury, medical, and environmental emergencies.
• Recognize the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and a safety-oriented home and workplace culture. Correctly demonstrate the removal of contaminated personal protective equipment.
• Correctly demonstrate the Adult First Aid Procedure.
• Correctly demonstrate how to use an epinephrine autoinjector.
• Describe the difference between a bystander and an immediate responder.
• Summarize the basic legal concepts that apply to providing aid in a bleeding emergency.
• Explain the elements of the procedure to stop life-threatening external bleeding.
• Recognize the immediate responder’s role, responsibilities, and priorities.
• Describe how to recognize life-threatening external bleeding.
• Recognize the best means to stop life-threatening external bleeding based on the availability of a bleeding control kit and wound location.
• Explain how to care for a person after life-threatening external bleeding has been stopped.
• Correctly demonstrate the removal of contaminated gloves.
• Correctly demonstrate how to stop life -threatening external bleeding using direct manual pressure.
• Correctly demonstrate how to stop life-threatening external bleeding by packing the wound.
• Correctly demonstrate how to stop life-threatening external bleeding using a commercial tourniquet.
• Correctly demonstrate how to stop life-threatening external bleeding using an improvised tourniquet (optional)

Correctly demonstrate the procedure to stop life-threatening external bleeding.

This is a Health Safety Institute Certification Course.