Advanced First Aid Workplace Based + CPR

Advanced First Aid Team response
Workplace Based
CPR + AED module + scoop + SKED + KED

Sudden cardiac arrest can happen to anyone, at any time. With
ACF S&E AED and CPR training, you can learn when, and to use an automated external defibrillator (AED), casualty retraction in hostile industrial environment like Confined spaces, using a SKED equipment . Courses are developed and taught by experts with decades of combined experience;

delivering simple-to-use techniques and information that can help you save a life.

PROGRAM

PREPARING TO RESPOND TO AN EMERGENCY
Prevention as a strategy in reducing fatalities, illnesses and injuries:
- Interacting with the internal or external EMS system.
- Good Samaritan legislation, consent, abandonment, negligence, State laws and regulations.
- Understanding the effects of stress, fear of infection, panic; how they interfere with performance
and barriers to action.
- Learning the importance of universal precautions and body substance isolation to provide
protection from blood-borne pathogens and other potentially infectious materials.

ASSESSING THE SCENE AND THE VICTIM(S)

PROTECT YOURSELF FIRST by:

- Taking a victim's history at the scene, including determining the mechanism of injury and the
potential remaining hazards.
- Assessing the scene for safety, number of injured and nature of the event.
- Performing a logical head-to-toe check for injuries.
- Emphasising early activation of EMS.
- Indications for and methods of safely moving and rescuing victims.

RESPONDING TO LIFE-THREATENING EMERGENCIES:
- Establishing responsiveness.
- Establishing and maintaining an open and clear airway.
- Performing rescue breathing.
- Performing CPR.
- Using an AED according to the following:

1.Good Samaritan
This CPR/AED certification course is an understanding of the legal precedents that allow first- responders to do their work. Pay close attention, since knowing your rights will make you a more
effective resource in an emergency and let you deliver the appropriate care with confidence.

2. Adult
More often CPR is administered to adults who have suffered cardiac arrest, a heart attack or a
stroke. In this important module, you will have access to photos and video that will walk you through
all the necessary steps. Through a combination of chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth
ventilation blood circulation and consciousness can be restored.

3. Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
The goal of AED administration is to restore a heartbeat to a patient after CPR has failed. This
module will explain how this technology can be use in an emergency and will walk you through all
the steps of operating the device.

EVALUATION: LIVE PRACTISE on site:
Trainees will demonstrate their ability to handle an accident scenario in a live context on site or in an
office as per their usual work place.

AIM

Participants will receive thorough training in: Preparing to respond to life-threatening emergencies such as, sudden Cardiac Arrest using the Automatic and Semi-Automatic External defibrillator.