1. Emergency Scene Management
2. Heart attack and Stroke
3. Airway and Breathing Emergencies
4. Adult/Infant/Child CPR and Choking Sequences
5. Wounds and Bleeding, Shock, Levels of Consciousness
6. Burns
7. Fractures
8. Sudden Illnesses: Diabetes, Seizures, Allergies, Asthma
9. Demonstration on how to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
Duration: 2 Days (16 hours)
Courses are currently unavailable.
]]>Topics Include:
1. Emergency Scene Management
2. Heart attack and Stroke
3. Wounds and Bleeding, Shock, Levels of Consciousness
4. Airway and Breathing Emergencies
5. Adult CPR and Choking Sequences OR Infant/Child CPR and Choking Sequences
6. Demonstration on how to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
Duration: 8 hours (1 Day)
Course is currently unavailable
]]>Topics Include:
1. Emergency Scene Management
2. The Chain of Survival
3. Heart & lung structure and function
4. Heart disease, heart attack, and stroke
5. Airway and breathing emergencies
6. Adult CPR
7. Infant / Child CPR
8. Choking sequences for conscious and unconscious victims
9. Demonstration on how to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
Duration: Approximately 8 hours
Course is currently unavailable
]]>Topics Include:
1. The chain of survival
2. Heart and lung structure and function
3. Heart disease, heart attack, and stroke
4. Airway and breathing emergencies
5. Adult CPR
6. Choking sequences for conscious and unconscious victims
7. Demonstration on how to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
Duration: 3-4 hours
Course is currently unavailable
]]>Duration: 3 -4 hours
Course is currently unavailable
]]>An Emergency First Aid course teaches your staff how to react and treat the most common work place emergencies for an adult, such as choking, heart attack and stroke, wounds and bleeding, fainting, breathing emergencies and more.
Participants will learn how to provide the following care in the event of an emergency:
- Emergency Scene Management:
- How to determine if the scene is safe enough to provide First Aid.
- How to determine level of consciousness (LOC) for an unresponsive victim.
- How to properly activate 911 and the EMS system.
- How to assist EMS in the event of an emergency.
- How to provide abdominal thrusts for a choking victim.
- How to perform CPR on a victim in cardiac arrest.
- How to use an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED).
- How to treat someone for Shock or has fainted.
- How to determine if someone is suffering a stroke.
- How to tackle wounds and bleeding emergencies.
- and more.
The course also provides background information on how heart disease can lead to either heart attack or stroke and ways to prevent it.
Participants will each have their own personal CPR manikin for practicing abdominal thrusts and CPR sequences for the duration of the course.
Each student will receive a course book, pocket flip chart, and certification.
Duration: 8 hours (1 Day)
Course is currently unavailable
]]>We use two types of manikins:
1. Sani Man from Simulaids
2. CPR Prompt
Our manikins offer the following benefits:
1. Realistic look and feel
2. Realistic head tilt and chin lift for practicing airway opening technique
3. Realistic chest rise for practicing emergency breathing techniques
3. Realistic chest compressions allowing you to practice proper CPR sequences
4. Realistic abdominal thrusts that enable you to properly learn how to relieve an airway obstruction and save the life of a choking victim.
5. Single use airway lung face shield system
**Its important to know that if you suspect that your child has seriously injured himself then you should have it checked out immediately. Don’t dismiss a possible fracture because it didn’t pass the fracture test below. If your child is in pain then consider having her checked out right away.**
How to check for a fracture
Check the arm for D.O.T.S
D-eformity
O-pen wounds
T-enderness
S-welling/Bruising
Deformity
The easiest way to tell if there is a fracture is to compare the two arms together. If one looks slightly deformed at the wrist (or elbow for an elbow fracture) then you would know if there is a possible fracture.
Examine the arms in the vertical position as well. If there is any deformity it will be easier to see from this angle.
DOTS could be performed for the legs as well. A sprained ankle will be clearly visible when comparing the two limbs in this position.
Tenderness
The second best way to check for a fracture, if there is no deformity, is to feel gently along the side of bone of the wrist. Feel on the top and the sides of the wrist/arm. If there is any pain at a specific point along the bone then it’s quite possible that there is a fracture. If not, it’s possible that it’s just a sprain. Since a sprain is an injury to the ligaments of a joint, a person with a sprain wouldn’t feel pain if you felt gently along the bone. Regardless, you would need to have it looked at by a doctor.
Bruising/Swelling
You should be able to quickly see if there is any swelling or bruising. Also, its very possible for bruising and swelling to be present even if there is no fracture.
My wife fell on her wrist while ice-skating in the winter and it looked terrible. It was bruised all over. However, there was no fracture but she still felt lots of pain. It even hurt her when the medics felt gently along the bone. In the end, she had to wear a wrist brace for at least six weeks and have repeated x-rays of her wrist. So not all injuries that pass the fracture test are indeed fractures.
As for Open wounds, while they can exist at the site of the fracture this is uncommon. So really, you are looking for any deformity, bruising, or swelling and feeling for tenderness.
Regardless of the injury, you will want to apply ice. If it’s a possible fracture then first splint the injury and then apply ice.
Important Note
Do not apply the ice directly on the skin. Wrap the ice or cold compress before applying it to the site of injury. A plastic bag of ice needs to be wrapped as well. If the splinted injury is completely wrapped in a bandage then you could apply the ice directly to the bandage.
Do not apply for long periods. Apply cold for approximately 20 minutes on and 20 minutes off.
Do not apply heat. This will increase swelling.
This article was originally published on my parenting blog at Husbandhood.net
The topic of fractures and sprains is covered in the Toronto First Aid and CPR courses and in the Infant / Child emergency course.
]]>Make a paste using Baking Soda and water and place it on the sting.
Three summers ago while I was outside on my deck, I got stung by a wasp for the very first time after accidentally placing my hand on it. I noticed right away that it was Yellow Jacket as it fell to the floor. The pain was intense.
I ran into the house and quickly made my baking soda and water concoction and rubbed it on my wrist. I looked at my watch to see how long it would take for the pain to go away.
The pain was gone in ten seconds. I couldn’t believe how well and fast it worked.
They now sell at your local pharmacy or drug store After Bite sting relief. The main ingredient: Baking soda. I bought one since I don’t usually carry around a box of baking soda.
Some important facts:
-Yellow Jackets have straight stingers and can sting repeatedly whereas Honey bees have barbed stingers and can only sting their victim once.
-Before treating a Honey bee sting make sure to remove the embedded stinger. Do not pull out the stinger either with your fingers or tweezers as this will cause more venom to be squeezed from the stinger sac into the sting. Rather, knock out the stinger by scraping the surface of the skin at a 45 degree angle with a credit card.
-Honey bee venom is also acidic and can be treated by applying a baking soda paste as well.
This article was originally published on my parenting blog at Husbandhood.net
The topic of bee stings is covered in the Toronto First Aid and CPR courses and in the Infant / Child emergency course.
Course is currently unavailable
]]>So here’s how to treat a burn:
1. Quickly place the burned area under cool (but not cold) water for roughly 10 - 45 minutes. This helps in stopping the burning process, reducing the blistering, and most importantly easing the pain.
2. Gently dry the burned area and apply Polysporin Triple Action with pain relief or similar to help treat the burn and prevent infection.
3. Wrap the burned area with gauze.
4. Give the child either Tylenol (acetaminophen) or Advil (ibuprofen) or both to deal with the pain.
5. Seek medical attention.
The important component about the treatment is to get the burn under cool water right away. Don’t think about it. Just get the burn under cool water and keep it there.
If the child has sustained a second degree burn to a larger area of the body making it harder to submerge under cool water then one option would be to wrap the burn area with a sheet and pour cool water over it (the sheet) until paramedics arrive. This would cool down the burn but more importantly, it would relieve the pain.
This article was originally published on my parenting blog at Husbandhood.net
This topic on burns is covered in the Toronto First Aid and CPR courses and in the Infant / Child emergency course.
Course is currently unavailable
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