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
For more details on this course or any other training please call 01271 830338 or use our contact form to request a call