Description
The PHECC First Aid Responder Course equips individuals with essential knowledge and skills to recognize and respond to life-threatening injuries, providing critical care until professional healthcare providers arrive. This course is ideal for a broad audience, including those who need basic first aid training for their roles—such as non-healthcare personnel, sports coaches, teachers, and parents.
Course Objectives:
To enhance and replace the existing Occupational First Aid course, offering a standardized syllabus nationwide. The FAR course also incorporates the comprehensive Cardiac First Response Community standard.
Topics Covered:
- First Aid in the workplace
- Patient assessment
- Incident procedures
- Cardiac First Response at the community level
- Common medical emergencies (asthma, diabetes, seizures, poisoning, fainting)
- Injury management and shock
- Care of unconscious patients
- Burns and electrical injury care
- Hypothermia and hyperthermia
- Information management
- Communications
- Well-being of the first aider
