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Course Description

Dive into a comprehensive Canadian Red Cross Standard First Aid and Basic Life Support course. This immersive course spans 2 days of in-person training. This course encompasses everything from minor injuries to life threatening situations. In this course, Basic Life Support is included which helps prepare pre-hospital or in-facility responders to recognize and intervene when patients are suffering from cardiac and respiratory arrest. The BLS curriculum is meant to support the delivery of high-performance, team-based professional resuscitation.

The course will focus mostly on practical first-aid skills and scenarios.

Learner Outcomes

  • Preparing to Respond 
  • The EMS System 
  • Check, Call, Care 
  • Airway Emergencies (Airway Obstruction)
  • Breathing & Circulation Emergencies (Assisted Ventilations, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, and AED)
  • Wound Care 
  • Head and Spine Injuries 
  • Bone, Muscle, and Joint, Injuries 
  • Sudden Medical Emergencies 
  • Environmental Emergencies 
  • Poisons (including opioids) 

Notes

 This is not a recertification and there are no pre-requisites.

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