The Emergency First Response 12 hour Care for Children Course combines CPR, first aid and AED training teaching people how to provide emergency care for injured or ill children (ages one to eight) and infants less than one year old. You’ll learn how to provide emergency care to children 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 skills covered on this Paediatric Course are:

• Scene Assessment and Barrier Use
• Primary Assessment
• Child CPR
• Automated External Defibrillator Use with Children
• Infant CPR
• Serious Bleeding
• Shock Management
• Spinal Injury Management
• Conscious Choking Child
• Conscious Chocking Infant
• Injury Assessment
• Bandaging
• Illness Assessment

The course affords a 3 year certification and candidates are encouraged to take regular refresher training. The course meets the requirements of the EYFS and has been approved by the Somerset LEA.

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