Free online courseLife-Saving First Aid

Course Description

Explore critical life-saving skills with the comprehensive Life-Saving First Aid online course. Delve into the vital aspects of first aid, focusing on essential techniques and strategies to effectively manage emergencies. Gain insights into improvised tourniquets for catastrophic bleeding and understand the proper application of the RapidStop® Tourniquet. Enhance your ability to administer first aid for embedded objects and learn the importance of ambulance control, ensuring you're well-prepared to act promptly in critical scenarios.

Discover the Citizen-Aid Pocket Guide, a crucial resource for everyone, and perfect the use of pocket masks and oxygen administration. Equip yourself with the knowledge to handle adult choking incidents and stabilize spines, ensuring a safe environment in emergencies. Familiarize yourself with the application of plasters, recognizing different types of fractures, and using CPR face masks. Learn to manage abdominal injuries and understand the role of aspirin and the ASPOD in first aid.

Master the protocols for calling EMS and tackling dislocated joints, while gaining insight into various types of bleeds, shocks, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Understand nosebleeds, electrical injuries, and pivotal first aid techniques including DRABC and ABCDS. Equip yourself with the knowledge for RUN HIDE TELL situations, explore hypoxia, and learn critical AED post resuscitation procedures.

Ensure safety while waiting for EMS, address vulnerabilities in choking incidents, and prioritize scene safety. Uncover the dangers of opioids, identify opioid overdose, and learn to administer Naloxone via injection or nasal spray. Delve into the effects of cold water shock and effective ways to treat drowning, alongside prevention strategies. Learn about emergency calls and treating snake bites, and explore conditions such as stable angina and heart attacks.

Navigate the intricacies of handling foreign objects in eyes, unresponsiveness from choking, and commercial tourniquet usage. Prevent accidents and falls, understand heart conditions, and learn the history of AED units. Explore the citizenAID app, delve into Norse rescue products, and discover haemostatic dressings like Woundclot to improve hemorrhage control. Grasp the essentials of swimmer safety in UK coastal waters, and understand bleeding causes and solutions.

Stay informed on skin care, hydration, AED maintenance, diabetes, and consent in first aid. Equip yourself with essential AED prep kits, dive into BSI First Aid Kits for workplace readiness, and understand mechanisms essential for injury management and prevention in emergencies.