Care for Children

• The Emergency First Response Care for Children course is an innovative CPR, AED and First Aid training course that teaches participants how to provide emergency care for injured or ill children (ages one to eight) and infants less than one year old.
• Participants learn about the types of medical emergencies that children face, and how they differ from adult conditions.
• Also includes the importance of attending to basic child emergency situations, the emotional aspects of caring for children, secondary care for children, and preventing common injuries and illnesses in children.

Emergency First Response Care for Children course trains the lay rescuer to follow the same priorities of care used by medical professionals. The student masters the priorities and the procedures of patient care for infants and children in a non-stressful learning environment, which reduces the performance anxieties that interfere with learning and enhances confidence when rendering aid in a real medical emergency.

The course includes both primary care (CPR) and secondary care (first aid) skills. The primary care portion of the course prepares the rescuer to render aid to an infant or child with a life-threatening emergency such as choking or cardiac arrest. Secondary care focuses on developing secondary patient care skills and building the rescuer’s confidence to render first aid to an infant or child in need when emergency medical services are either delayed or unavailable. The Care for Children course content is based on guidelines from the Paediatric Working Group of ILCOR.

Primary & Secondary Skills taught in this course:

1. Scene Assessment and Barrier Use
2. Primary Assessment
3. One Rescuer - Child CPR
4. One Rescuer - Infant CPR
5. Conscious Choking Child
6. Conscious Choking Infant
7. Serious Bleeding Management
8. Shock Management
9. Spinal Injury Management
10. Injury Assessment
11. Bandaging
12. Illness Assessment
13. Recommended Skills AED (Automated External Defibrillator) Use with children

Prerequisite

Non – anyone can enrol

Certification

Wall certificate and certification card

Course Materials

Manual, wall certificate, and certification card.

Refresher Advised

Every 2 years.

Our Primary Care/Secondary Care Course count towards CPD (Continuous Professional Development) points for professionals