20807258First Aid and CPR
Course Information
Description
This course provides students with the knowledge, analytical skills and physical skills necessary in an emergency to help sustain life, reduce pain, and minimize the consequences of injury or medical emergency. The Red Cross does not permit its materials to be reproduced or published without advanced written permission from the Red Cross.
Total Credits
2
Course Competencies
  1. Provide emergency care.

  2. Identify the signs and symptoms of breathing emergencies, including choking, and demonstrate how to give ventilations and care for choking.

  3. Identify the signs of cardiac arrest and demonstrate how to provide care through cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED).

  4. Identify the signs and symptoms of shock and describe how to minimize its effects.

  5. Recognize the signs and symptoms of bleeding and demonstrate how to control external bleeding.

  6. Identify the signs and symptoms of bleeding of various soft tissue and musculoskeletal injuries and demonstrate how to care for them.

  7. Recognize the signs and symptoms of medical emergencies including sudden illnesses, poisoning, bites and stings, and head and cold emergencies and describe how to care for them.

  8. Describe when to move a victim in an emergency situation and demonstrate various rescue moves.

  9. The Red Cross does not permit its materials to be reproduced or published without advanced written permission from the Red Cross.

This Outline is under development.