Comprehensive first aid and CPR skills for professional first responders or those training to become first responders. This course is geared to fire service, rescue team, workplace response team, sports-medicine professionals, lifeguards and ski patrol. Course teaches the patient assessment model, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, hemorrhage control, and care for a variety of acute and chronic conditions. Participants will be engaged in dynamic training techniques including video, media presentations, skills demonstrations, practice sessions, discussions and scenarios based on real-life situations.
Course content includes:
- The Professional Responder
- Responding to the call
- Infection prevention and control
- Anatomy and physiology
- Assessment
- Airway management and respiratory emergencies
- Circulatory emergencies
- Shock
- Hemorrhage and soft tissue trauma
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Chest, abdominal and pelvic injuries
- Head and spinal injuries
- Acute and chronic illnesses
- Poisoning
- Environmental illnesses
- Pregnancy, labour and delivery
- Special populations
- Crisis intervention
- Reaching, lifting and extricating patients
- Multiple-casualty incidents
Includes any other content required by specific legislation.
Course Duration
40 hours
Language
English
Prerequisite
None
Requirements for completion
- Successfully demonstrate the required skills
- Minimum 75% mark for written, closed book, knowledge evaluation
- Successfully complete minimum of one practical scenario
- Attend and participate in 100% of the course
Campus
Available in Abbotsford, Burnaby, Langley, Surrey, and Vancouver
Certificate
3 Year certification
Course Price
$725 + GST – includes digital text book
(EMR Full courses are also available and can be viewed here)
Optional Purchase – Emergency Care for Professional Responders Hard Copy Manual – $135 + GST/PST
