EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONSE COURSE
EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONSE COURSE
- Primary Care (CPR) – This course teaches you the steps and techniques for handling life-threatening emergencies. You’ll practice eight skills for aiding patients who aren’t breathing, have no heartbeat, may have a spinal injury, may be in shock or who may have serious bleeding. You’ll learn to how to perform CPR and continue to monitor the patient, so that you provide every possible chance of survival while waiting for emergency medical services to arrive.
- Secondary Care (First Aid) – Because many medical conditions are not life-threatening and emergency medical services are sometimes delayed or unavailable, this course teaches you how to provide first aid that eases pain and reduces the risk of further harm. You’ll learn to assess a variety of injuries and illnesses and practice bandaging and splinting.
- Care for Children – This course allows participants to learn, practice and apply emergency care skills specific to helping infants and children with medical emergencies. It’s designed for those who work with children or are likely to have to respond to emergencies involving youngsters. This course is often integrated with Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) courses.
- CPR & AED – This course focuses on CPR training and teaching participants how to use an AED (automated external defibrillator). When workplace or governmental requirements specify this training, the CPR & AED course meets the need. This course is often integrated into First Aid at Work programs.
- First Aid at Work – In some areas, such as Great Britain, Australia and Canada, governmental regulations call for enhanced CPR and first aid training for the workplace. First Aid at Work programs designed for these areas include additional topics and skills to meet requirements while following the easy to learn EFR approach to training.
- EFR Refresher – It’s a good idea to refresh your CPR and first aid skills every 24 months, and that’s what the EFR Refresher course is designed to do. Focusing on key skills, the course allows you to stay up-to-date and ready to lend aid when needed.
The training of Emergency First Response Course starts at 1000hrs and it will usually end at about 1700hrs provided the students already watch the EFR DVD and completed the EFR Knowledge Review. The following are the Course Goals & Performance Requirements:
Course Goals For Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid):
Increase access to CPR education, increase effectiveness and efficiency of instruction, improve skills retention, and reduce barriers to action for basic life support providers.
Provide a positive and nurturing learning environment that reduces participant anxiety, guilt and fear of imperfect performance.
Teach a course that increases the percentage of CPR and first aid-trained laypersons who use their skills without hesitation to assist those in need.
Combine CPR and first aid into one Emergency Responder protocol.
Teach a simple CPR and first aid protocol that promotes long-term memory retention by participants.
Maximize participant skill development and practice time, while minimizing instructor led knowledge development (lectures).
Teach a course following the latest ILCOR (International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation) Basic Life Support guidelines, thus providing an internationally consistent course flexible enough to accommodate regional CPR and first aid protocols and cultural differences.
Integrate participant independent study whenever possible for course efficiency and respect for valuable participant time.
Performance Requirements of the Emergency First Response Course:
- Perform a scene assessment.
Use barriers appropriately.
Perform a patient responsiveness check by giving the Responder Statement and then tapping the collarbone, grasping or squeezing the shoulder or arm to gain patient attention.
Phone an Emergency Medical Service number at the appropriate time within the CPR and first aid sequence.
Quickly recognize unresponsiveness and absence of normal breathing to determine when CPR – chest compressions – is appropriate.
Perform one rescuer, adult CPR – chest compressions – at a rate of at least 100 compressions per minute, to a depth approximately one third the depth of the chest – at least 5 centimeters/2 inches.
Minimize the frequency and duration of interruptions to chest compressions to maximize the number of compressions delivered per minute.
Perform effective chest compressions by allowing the chest to completely recoil after each compression.
Open and maintain an airway using the head tilt-chin lift or pistol grip technique.
Provide effective rescue breaths (normal breaths of 1-second duration) that make the patient’s chest rise. The rescue breaths may be given using the mouth-to-mouth, mouth-to-barrier, or mouth-to-mask techniques.
Perform complete CPR with chest compressions and rescue breathing at a rate of 30 compressions to 2 rescue breaths.
Explain the importance and timeliness of defibrillation within the CPR and first aid protocol and list the two ways it can be obtained (EMS and AED provided).
Perform an emergency move and place a person in the recovery position.
Demonstrate how to assist a conscious choking patient and/or an unconscious choking patient consistent with local protocol.
Manage serious external bleeding using direct pressure.
Perform appropriate shock management.
Stabilize and manage suspected spinal injury.
Provide manual stabilization of suspected skeletal injuries when Emergency Medical Service personnel will be delayed.
Perform initial and ongoing assessments of an injured or ill person when Emergency Medical Service personnel are either delayed or unavailable.
Perform all skills in a manner that minimizes risk to the Emergency Responder, patient and bystanders.
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- Wear comfortable clothing cause you will be lying on the floor during the training.
- For girls, please do not wear dress for the training.
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- All Participants Are Required To Fill Up The PADI Release of Liability/ Assumption of Risk / Non-Agency Acknowledge Form Before Any Diving Activity.
- All Participants Are Required To Fill Up The PADI Standard Safe Diving Practices Statement of Understanding Before Any Diving Activity.
- All Participants Are Required To Fill Up The PADI Medical Statement Before Any Diving Activity.
- If There Are Any Pre-Existing Medical Conditions (Eg Asthma, Heart Conditions, Operations Etc) May Prevent You From Diving, Please Consult Your Doctor For A Medical Clearance Before Any Diving Activity.
- For Certified Divers, A Proof of Certification From Any Training Agency Is Required Before The Diving Activity.
- Divers Should Not Take Flight 12Hrs After Scuba Diving.
- Under 10Yrs Old Are Not Allow To Participate In The Program Except Bubble Maker Program (8 - 9Yrs Old) Conducted In Pool Only.
- For Children Between 10 - 11Yrs Old Going To Confined Water or Open Water, Parents or Guardian Must Review The Youth Diving Responsibility & Risks FlipChart As Well As Fill Up The Youth Diving Responsibility And Risks Acknowledgement Form Before Any Diving Activity.
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