Paediatric First Aid
Two days that prepare your staff to deal with a full range of infant and child emergencies — from CPR and choking to seizures, meningitis, burns and poisoning.
About the course
Be ready when a child needs you
Paediatric First Aid prepares delegates for emergencies involving infants and children, with hands-on practice on baby manikins throughout. By the end of the course, delegates will:
- Understand the role and responsibilities of a paediatric first aider
- Be able to assess an emergency situation safely
- Be able to provide first aid for an infant or a child who is unresponsive
- Be able to provide first aid for an infant or child who is choking
- Be able to provide first aid to an infant or child with external bleeding
- Know how to provide first aid to an infant or child who is suffering from shock
- Know how to help with bites, stings and minor injuries
- Be able to provide first aid for suspected injuries to bones, muscles and joints
- Be able to provide first aid for suspected head and spinal injuries
- Know how to respond to conditions affecting the eyes, ears and nose
- Know how to respond to acute medical conditions and sudden illness
- Know how to respond to extremes of body temperature
- Know how to respond to electric shock
- Know how to respond to burns, scalds and suspected poisoning
- Know how to respond to anaphylaxis
What you’ll cover
Full course content
Two full days of lessons and practicals, from the role of the first aider through every major infant and child emergency.
Day 1
- Role of a first aider
- Assessing emergency situations
- CPR
- Recovery position
- Seizures and febrile convulsions
- Choking
- Bleeding, tourniquets and wound packing
- Shock
- Minor injuries
- Sprains and strains
Day 2
- Fractures and dislocations
- Head and spinal injuries
- Eye injuries and foreign bodies in the nose or ears
- Diabetes, asthma and anaphylaxis
- Meningitis
- Hypothermia, heat exhaustion and heat stroke
- Electric shock
- Burns and scalds
- Poisoning
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