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Helping children

Course duration: 8 hours.
Purpose: Training in First Aid for children and infants in case of emergencies, injuries, bleeding, exacerbations of diseases and other health problems.
For whom: parents, grandparents, babysitters, teachers, caregivers, coaches, and other staff working with children.
Course format: 40% theory + 60% hands-on training with practice of First Aid skills.

Course Topics

Introduction (organizational issues):

  • registration, introductions (introduction of instructors and trainees);
  • Course outline, breaks, course goals and objectives.

Introduction:

  • What is First Aid;
  • Legal aspects of First Aid;
  • Personal safety when administering First Aid;
  • basics of psychological support.

Algorithm (steps) of First Aid:

  • inspection and safety assessment of the scene;
  • examination of the victim (determination of life-threatening factors);
  • Calling an ambulance and the work of this service;
  • providing First Aid.

Victim unconscious (breathing is present):

  • checking the presence of consciousness;
  • ensuring airway patency;
  • checking breathing;
  • recovery position;
  • First aid for total and partial loss of consciousness (fainting).

Respiratory and cardiac arrest:

  • causes of respiratory and cardiac arrest;
  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for the child and infant;
  • features of resuscitation in drowning.

Victim choking (airway obstruction):

  • causes, prevention;
  • signs of partial and complete airway obstruction;
  • First aid to a child and infant.

Bleeding:

  • types of bleeding;
  • Methods of stopping bleeding, applying a pressure dressing;
  • First aid in case of nasal bleeding;
  • First aid for internal bleeding.

Wounds and burns:

  • Classification of wounds and burns;
  • First aid, including wounds with foreign bodies;
  • First-aid for eye wounds;
  • First-aid for burns of different types.

Musculoskeletal injuries:

  • Types of injuries, symptoms;
  • Application of splints and fixation bandages;
  • traumas of the head and spine.

Acute conditions and exacerbations of diseases:

  • Acute allergic reactions and Asthma;
  • Epilepsy;
  • Effects of heat and cold;
  • poisoning…

Summing up the course.