Safety Series: First Aid & CPR Training
Event Sponsors
Date and Time
Tuesday Jan 10, 2017
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
Location
HBASE Office Board Room
Fees/Admission
$20 / Members
$40 / Non-Members
Includes Lunch
Registration Deadline: Friday, January 6, 2017 (5:00PM)
Cancelation policy: Any registrations received after the registration deadline, “walk-ins” or “no shows” that are not cancelled 48 hours prior to the event will be invoiced the equivalent to the expense taken upon the HBASE for that reservation.
Safety Series: First Aid & CPR Traini...
Description
The course will cover CPR/AED for adult, child, and infant. Choking and First Aid for common illnesses and injuries.
FIRST AID
Designed to meet OSHA regulations, this course covers first aid basics, consisting of the most common life-threatening emergencies, how to recognize them, how to call for help, and how to perform lifesaving skills. After successfully completing this course, students should be able to:
- List the priorities, roles, and responsibilities of first aid rescuers
- Describe the key steps in first aid
- Remove protective gloves
- Find the problem
- Describe the assessment and first aid actions for the following life-threatening conditions: heart attack, difficulty breathing, choking, severe bleeding, shock, and stroke
- Use an epinephrine pen
- Control bleeding and bandaging
- Recognize elements of common injuries
- Recognize elements of common illnesses
- Describe how to find information on preventing illness and injury
- Recognize the legal questions that apply to first aid rescuers
This course will teach you to recognize cardiac arrest, get emergency care on the way quickly, and help a person until more advanced care arrives to take over. The course also covers adult choking and naloxone. After successfully completing this course, students should be able to:
- Describe how high-quality CPR improves survival
- Explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival
- Recognize when someone needs CPR
- Perform high-quality CPR for an adult
- Describe how to perform CPR with help from others
- Give effective breaths using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
- Demonstrate how to use an AED on an adult
- Perform high-quality CPR for a child*
- Demonstrate how to use an AED on a child*
- Perform high-quality CPR for an infant*
- Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child
- Demonstrate how to help a choking infant*
