Our Paediatric First Aid courses focus on emergency scenarios that face those looking after young children and infants.
Course outline
- Planning for First Aid emergencies
- Dealing with emergencies
- Resuscitating
- Recognising and dealing with shock
- Recognising and responding appropriately to:
- Anaphylactic shock
- Electric shock
- Bleeding
- Meningitis and other serious sudden illness
- Responding appropriately to:
- Burns and scalds
- Choking
- Suspected fractures
- head, neck and back injuries
- Cases of poisoning
- Foreign bodies in eyes, ears and noses
- Eye injuries
- Bites and stings
- Effects of extreme heat and cold
- Febrile convulsions
- Recognising and responding appropriately to the emergency needs of chronic medical conditions including:
- Epilepsy, Asthma, Sickle cell and diabetes