Emergency First Response
Duration : 1 Day
Equipment : Included
Requirements : Min 18 Years old
Overview
Emergency First Response is PADI's new first aid and CPR course. It teaches you to provide emergency care for someone in need and is based on internationally recognized medical guidelines for emergency care. Whether you're a diver or a non-diver, Emergency First Response helps you to properly handle potentially life-threatening situations. To qualify as a rescue diver you need to have current CPR training and the first part of this course fulfils this requirement.
About the course:
A non-diving certification which teaches you the basic first aid and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Scene assessment, barrier use, primary assessment, rescue breathing, one rescuer adult CPR, serious bleeding management, shock management, spinal injury management, automated external defibrillator orientation, conscious choking adult, emergency oxygen use.
Secondary Care
Build upon your CPR skills by learning how to provide secondary care to a patient when the care provided by local emergency services will be delayed. Injury assessment, illness assessment, bandaging, splinting for dislocations and fractures.
Scenario Practice
you then put all you have learned to practice by applying the skills to realistic situations.
Care for Children:
The Emergency First Response Care for Children course is designed to help you deal with emergencies involving infants and babies.
Additional charges (+ 10% sales tax)
EFR manual: c. €30
Certification fee: 50
Learning material:
BLS (Basic Life Support) CPR and rescue breathing at the layperson level
Preventing and caring for shock
Spinal injury management
Use of barriers to reduce disease transmission risk
You will learn basic first aid and first aid kit considerations.
This comprehensive program contains 2 core modules that can be taught in tandem or as stand-alone courses: Emergency First Response - Primary Care and Emergency First Response - Secondary Care. Together, these courses provide extensive instruction in CPR and First Aid. The Primary and Secondary Care Manual and video on DVD preview emergency scenarios and provide step-by-step skill demonstrations.
