TRAUMA AND FIRST AID FUNDAMENTALS

Do you have the knowledge and ability to apply basic first aid fundamentals, and potentially save a life? There is nothing like freezing and wondering what to do when you, a family member, or even a stranger next you has a medical problem and you have no clue what to do.

This course provides you with the knowledge and practical skills to provide basic first aid until medical professionals arrives on scene. Those crucial minutes can decide life pr death. This course uses and provides you with the USCCA's training instruction, "Emergency First Aid Fundamentals" instruction manual and provides the basics from checking your safety and calling 911, to apply basic first aid methods to those needing your help. This instruction contains:

• Patient Assessment (Assessing Scene Safety, Additional Resources, Patient Awareness (AVPU scale), Assess Major Life Threats, Determining Spinal Immobilization, Assessing ABC's)

• Traumatic Emergencies (Severe Arterial Bleeding, Maintenance of a Severe Laceration, Penetrating Chest Injuries, Severe Burns, Musculoskeletal Trauma, Femur Fractures, Pelvis Fractures, Rib Fractures, Flailing Chest, Head Trauma, Eye Trauma)

• Medical Emergencies (Cardiac Compromise, Cardiac Arrest, Diabetic, Stroke, Seizures and Syncope, Anaphylaxis, Venomous Snakebites, Hypothermia, Heat Stroke, Airway Obstruction, shock)

• Building your own First Aid Kit (Buy or Build, Comfort Versus Lifesaving, Creating IFAC kit, Medium or Large Kit, Trauma Kits, other gadgets and gear, Ongoing Training)

Practical skill portion of this course includes:

CPR - using a CPR mannequin

Blood Loss - Using tourniquet, stop the bleed bandages

Diabetes - using a glucose meter

Breathing - using a O2 Oximeter

Other - using splints, and other bandages

This course is designed to provide the knowledge and skills to keep a patient alive and stable until medical professional arrive on scene or the patient is taken to a near by hospital.