Emergency First Response Care for Children

Provide emergency care for injured or ill children

The Emergency First Response Care for Children course is an innovative CPR, AED and First Aid training course that teaches participants how to provide emergency care for injured or ill children (ages one to eight) and infants less than one year old. Participants learn about the types of medical emergencies that children face, and how they differ from adult conditions.

The curriculum also includes the importance of attending to basic emergency situations with children, the emotional aspects of caring for children, secondary care for children, and preventing common injuries and illnesses in children.

Emergency First Response Care for Children course trains the lay rescuer to follow the same priorities of care used by medical professionals. The student masters the priorities and the procedures of patient care for infants and children in a non-stressful learning environment, which reduces the performance anxieties that interfere with learning and enhances confidence when rendering aid in a real medical emergency.

This course requires 4 hours to be completed

What does this activity include?

• Scene Safety Assessment Universal Precautions
• Communicable Disease Protection & Barrier Use Primary Assessment Obstructed Airway Management (child and infant)
• Rescue Breathing (child and infant)
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (child and infant)
• Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
• use Serious Bleeding Shock Management Spinal Injury Management
• Injury Assessment
• Bandaging
• Illness Assessment

What do I need to start?

• Care about other people and want to be able to assist them in a medical emergency