Course Description:
Would you know what to do if you were deep in the wilderness and a hunting companion sustained a penetrating chest wound from an errant round? Could you prolong the life of a loved one long enough for the ambulance to arrive, if he or she had sustained a lacerated artery from a violent attacker armed with a knife?
While most Americans are comfortable dealing with the cuts and scrapes of everyday life, and tens of thousands have learned the Heimlich maneuver and CPR, most individuals would be a bit less comfortable dealing with severe, life-threatening injuries or illnesses when seconds count and EMS personnel and the emergency room are minutes (or longer) away.
Subjects covered in this course are:
Performing a Patient Assessment
•Assessing the situation.
•Determining scene safety.
•Accessing and treating major life threats.
•Stabilizing spinal injuries.
•Airway, breathing and circulation.
•Reading the patient.
Secondary assessments.
Traumatic Emergencies.
•Severe arterial bleeding.
•Maintenance of a severe laceration.
•Flail chest.
•Sucking chest wounds.
•Broken femur or pelvis.
•Severe burns.
•Non-life threatening trauma.
•Splinting.
Medical and Environmental Emergencies.
•Cardiac compromise.
•The chain of survival.
•Diabetic emergencies.
•Stroke.
•Anaphylaxis.
•Hypothermia.
•Heat stroke.
•Shock.
Creating your Own Emergency First Aid Kit
•Building your own kit.
•Small, medium and large kits.
•Finding supplies.
•Ongoing training.
•Summary.
Would you know what to do if you were deep in the wilderness and a hunting companion sustained a penetrating chest wound from an errant round? Could you prolong the life of a loved one long enough for the ambulance to arrive, if he or she had sustained a lacerated artery from a violent attacker armed with a knife?
While most Americans are comfortable dealing with the cuts and scrapes of everyday life, and tens of thousands have learned the Heimlich maneuver and CPR, most individuals would be a bit less comfortable dealing with severe, life-threatening injuries or illnesses when seconds count and EMS personnel and the emergency room are minutes (or longer) away.
Subjects covered in this course are:
Performing a Patient Assessment
•Assessing the situation.
•Determining scene safety.
•Accessing and treating major life threats.
•Stabilizing spinal injuries.
•Airway, breathing and circulation.
•Reading the patient.
Secondary assessments.
Traumatic Emergencies.
•Severe arterial bleeding.
•Maintenance of a severe laceration.
•Flail chest.
•Sucking chest wounds.
•Broken femur or pelvis.
•Severe burns.
•Non-life threatening trauma.
•Splinting.
Medical and Environmental Emergencies.
•Cardiac compromise.
•The chain of survival.
•Diabetic emergencies.
•Stroke.
•Anaphylaxis.
•Hypothermia.
•Heat stroke.
•Shock.
Creating your Own Emergency First Aid Kit
•Building your own kit.
•Small, medium and large kits.
•Finding supplies.
•Ongoing training.
•Summary.
