CPR & First Aid (EHN Employees Only)

Agenda

The purpose of the courses in the First Aid/CPR/AED program is to help participants recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac, breathing and first aid emergencies to know to give immediate care to a suddenly injured or ill person until more advanced medical personnel arrive and take over.

Learning Objectives

CPR/AED:

• Recognize the signals of a cardiac emergency.
• Identify the links in the Cardiac Chain of Survival.
• Describe how to care for a heart attack.
• List the causes of cardiac arrest.
• Explain the role of CPR in cardiac arrest.
• Demonstrate how to perform CPR.
• Recognize the signals of a breathing emergency.
• Demonstrate how to care for a person who is choking.
• Explain what defibrillation is.
• Explain how defibrillation works.
• Identify precautions to take when using an AED on a person in sudden cardiac arrest.
• Demonstrate how to use an AED.

First Aid:

• Identify the signals of common sudden illnesses.
• Describe how to care for common sudden illnesses.
• Describe how to care for someone who is having a seizure.
• Identify the signals of heat-related illnesses and cold-related emergencies.
• Describe how to care for heat-related illnesses and cold-related emergencies.
• Explain how to care for head, neck and spinal injuries.
• Identify signals of various soft tissue and musculoskeletal injuries.
• Describe how to care for various soft tissue and musculoskeletal injuries.
• Explain how to care for muscle, bone or joint injuries.
• Demonstrate how to control external bleeding.
• Identify signals of head, neck and spinal injuries
  

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