Paediatric First Aid

 

Who should attend:

Anyone who works with children.

 

Course benefits:

This course will provide delegates with the individual with a sound knowledge and understanding of all first aid procedures that you could be called upon when working with children and babies. It will also provide delegates with the ability to recognise and treat many childhood conditions and illnesses.

 

Additional information:

This course is valid for 3 years.

 

Certification:

All candidates who participate to the required level will receive a certificate of attendance from Essential Training

 

Contents:

Day One

Definition of First Aid

The aims of First Aid

The First Aid box

Writing reports

Responsibilities of the first aider

Explanation of LIONEL

Techniques of TRIAGE

Casualty communication (Parents and children)

 

Primary assessment

• Danger

• Response

• Airway

• Breathing

• Circulation

 

Secondary assessment

How to make a diagnosis

Performing a top to toe survey

The recovery position – how and why?

Action for vomiting

Turning a casualty

Disorders of respiration and airway obstruction

Choking

• The conscious child

• The unconscious child

• The conscious baby

• The unconscious baby

 

Asthma

Hyperventilation

Breath holding attacks

Croup

Gas and smoke inhalation

Principles of resuscitation

Procedures for artificial ventilation in children and babies

Procedures for Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) for;

• Pulse present but not breathing

• No pulse and not breathing

 

Recognition and treatment of head injuries

Concussion

Skull fracture

Cerebral compression

 

Day Two

The control of bleeding and the treatment for shock

Type of wounds and bleeding

Preventing cross infection

General rules of bandaging and dressings

General rules of external bleeding

Indirect pressure

Embedded objects

Shock

Bones, joints and muscle injuries

Types of fracture and how they are caused

Dislocations

Soft tissue injuries

Burns

• How burns are caused

• Extent of burns

• Depth of burns

• Treatment of minor and major burns

• Burns to the airway

• Electrical burns

 

Poisons

• What is a poison?

• How poison enters the body

Symptoms and treatment of

• Household poisons

• Drug poisoning

• Systemic poisons

• Corrosive poisons

• Poisonous plants and fungi

Treatment for

• Animal bites

• Insect bites and stings

• Human bites

• Snake bites

 

Childhood conditions

 

Symptoms and treatment of -

• Seizures

• Absence seizures

• Meningitis

• Diabetes

• Allergic reaction and Anaphylactic shock