Paediatric First Aid Training Courses

(Paediatric First Aid Course)

A 12 hour Care for Children course which meets the needs of childcare
workers and meets the requirements for Surestart, NCMA, PLA and EYDCP.

The Care for Children course is an innovative CPR and First Aid Training course that teach 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

The Paediatric First Aid 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.

The course includes both primary care (CPR) and secondary care (first aid) skills. The primary care portion of the course prepares the rescuer to render aid to an infant or child with a life-threatening emergency such as choking or cardiac arrest. Secondary care focuses on developing secondary patient care skills and building the rescuer's confidence to render first aid to an infant or child in need when emergency medical services are either delayed or unavailable. The Care for Children course content is based on guidelines from the Paediatric Working Group of ILCOR.

Paediatric First Aid Course Content:
Scene Safety Assessment, Universal Precautions, Communicable Disease Protection, Barrier Use, Initial Assessment, Obstructed Airway Management (child and infant), Rescue Breathing (child and infant), Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (child and infant), Serious Bleeding, Shock Management, and Spinal Injury Management, Injury Assessment, Bandaging, Illness Assessment, Burns, Scalds, Anaphylactic Shock, Electric Shock, Foreign Bodies (eyes, ears and nose), Bites, Stings, Heat Related Illnesses, Poisons, Febrile Convulsions, Epilepsy, Asthma, Sickle Cell Crisis, Diabetes and Meningitis.

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