Course Content

Emergency First Response Secondary Care (first aid) covers injuries or illnesses that are not immediately life threatening. Participants focus on secondary assessment and first aid through knowledge development, skill development and realistic scenario practice.

Secondary Skills taught in this course:

• Injury Assessment
• Illness Assessment
• Bandaging
• Splinting for Dislocations and Fractures

Includes Reference Section on the following topics:

• Allergic Reactions
• Bruises
• Burns
• Chemical Burns
• CPR (adult, child, infant)
• Choking (adult and infant),
• Cone Shell Stings,
• Coral, Jellyfish and Hydroid Stings,
• Cuts,
• Dental Injuries,
• Diabetic Problems,
• Dislocations and Fractures,
• Electrical Injuries
• Eye Injuries
• First Aid Kit Assembly
• Fish Spine Injury
• Frostbite
• Heat Exhaustion
• Heatstroke
• Heart Attack
• Hypothermia
• Illness Assessment
• Injury Assessment
• Insect Stings
• Octopus Bites
• Poisoning
• Rescue Breathing (adult, child, infant
• Scrapes
• Seizures
• Snake Bites
• Spider Bites
• Sprains and Strains
• Stroke
• Temperature Related Injuries
• Venomous Bites and Stings
• Illness Assessment Record Sheet.