Course Outline

• First Aid Provider
• Protecting Yourself
• Legal Considerations
• Calling for Help
• Emergency Moves
• Primary Assessment — Unresponsive Person
• Primary Assessment— Responsive Person
• Choking
• Control of Bleeding
• Supplemental Topic
• Using a Tourniquet
• Supplemental Topic - Using a Hemostatic Dressing
• Shock
• Supplemental Topic – Amputation
• Supplemental Topic
• Impaled Objects
• Supplemental Topic - Open Chest Injury
• Supplemental Topic - Open Abdominal Injury
• Head, Neck, or Back Injury
• Swollen, Painful, Deformed Limb
• Supplemental Topic - Splinting
• Supplemental Topic - Using a Malleable Splint
• Burns
• Supplemental Topic - Using a Gel-Soaked Burn Dressing
• Minor Injuries
• Altered Mental Status
• Breathing Difficulty, Shortness of Breath
• Supplemental Topic - Using an EpiPen Auto-Injector
• Supplemental Topic - Using an Epinephrine Auto-Injector
• Pain, Severe Pressure, or Discomfort in the Chest
• Poisoning
• Supplemental Topic - Severe Abdominal Pain
• Heat Emergencies
• Cold Emergencies
• Supplemental Topic - Stinging Insects
• Supplemental Topic - Snakebites
• Supplemental Topic -Spider Bites
• Supplemental Topic - Tick Bites
• Supplemental Topic -Marine Animal Stings
• Supplemental Topic - Animal and Human Bites
• Supplemental Topic - Emotional Considerations