First Response Emergency Care
Duration: 4 days
- Understand the role and responsibilities of the first person on the scene during an emergency incident
- Understand the principles of scene management in pre-hospital care
- Know the principles required for effective and safe patient assessment in the pre-hospital care setting
- Assess an incident for dangers and respond appropriately
- Assess the patient’s levels of consciousness
- Recognize and manage a patient with a catastrophic bleed
- Assess and manage a patient’s airway blockage and recognize and manage a patient with a suspected spinal injury
- Assess and manage a patient who is not breathing normally
- Assess a patient’s circulation and manage a patient who is in shock
- Assess a patient’s level of disability
- Know the principles of exposing the patient for further assessment and act upon environmental considerations
- Know how to recognize and manage a range of medical emergencies in the pre-hospital care setting
- Know how to recognize and manage a range of trauma-related emergencies in the pre-hospital care setting Understand the recognition features of red flag sepsis in the pre-hospital care setting
- Know how to recognize emergency care equipment to assist the healthcare professional
- Manage a pediatric patient who is not breathing normally