First Aid Training

Standard First Aid

The St. John Ambulance program, Standard First Aid is a comprehensive first aid course that provides employees with the tools necessary to stabilize a casualty until advanced medical help can arrive.

First Aid Course Modules

Emergency First Aid (includes Level "A" CPR):

Modules 1-5, 8

Standard First Aid (includes Level "A" CPR):

Modules 1-5, 8, 10-13, 18, 19, 21, 22

Standard First Aid (includes Level "C" CPR):

Modules 1-13, 18, 19, 21, 22

*Inclusion and exclusion of select modules is available to better fit training needs.

COMPULSARY LESSONS:

1. Emergency Scene Management
   • Principles of safety when providing First Aid
   • Scene Survey (taking control, hazards, mechanism of injury and history, beginning of casualty care, ongoing casualty care)
2. Shock, Unconsciousness & Fainting
   • Recognition of signs & symptoms
   • Recovery Position
3. Artificial Respiration- Adult
   • Basic knowledge of respiratory system
   • Recognition of breathing emergencies
   • Application of various types of artificial respiration
   • Complications of artificial respiration
4. Choking- Adult
   • Preventative measures
   • Recognition of choking
   • First Aid for choking casualty
5. Severe Bleeding
   • Use of dressings and bandages in First Aid procedures
   • Recognition of major wounds, severe external and internal bleeding
   • First Aid applications for bleeding wounds, amputated tissue, internal bleeding

ELECTIVE LESSONS:

6. Child Resuscitation
   • Recognition of breathing emergencies in children aged 1-8 years
   • Application of various types of artificial respiration
   • First Aid for choking
   • CPR
7. Infant Resuscitation
   • Recognition of breathing emergencies in children aged Birth to 1 year
   • Application of various types of artificial respiration
   • First Aid for choking
   • CPR
8. Cardiovascular Emergencies and One- Rescuer CPR- Adult
   • Application of the knowledge of cardiovascular disease, risk factors, preventative health measures
   • Recognition of angina/ heart attack/ cardiac arrest/ stroke/ TIA
   • Performance of lone CPR
9. Two-Rescuer CPR- Adult
   • Performance of CPR on an unattended cardiac arrest casualty
   • Performance of CPR on a cardiac arrest casualty when CPR is in progress by another First Aider
10. Secondary Survey
    • Performed when EMS is delayed or unavailable, or when casualty must be transported
    • Four Steps:
      • Obtaining the history of the casualty
      • Assessing vital signs
      • Head to Toe Examination
      • First Aid for non-life threatening conditions
11. Bone and Joint Injuries- Upper Limbs, Muscle Strains
    • Recognition of bone and joint injuries to the upper limbs
    • First aid for bone and joint injuries of the arms, shoulders, collarbones
    • Application of splints, bandages, dressings, and slings
12. Bone and Joint Injuries- Lower Limbs, Muscle Strains
    • Recognition of bone and joint injuries to the lower limbs
    • First aid for bone and joint injuries of the legs, knees, ankles
    • Application of splints, bandages, dressings
13. Head/ Spinal and Pelvic Injuries
    • Recognition of head/ spinal injuries, pelvic injuries
    • Control bleeding from scalp and ear
    • First Aid for these injuries
14. Chest Injuries
    • Recognition of chest injury, penetrating chest wounds, flail chest, rib fracture, blast injury
    • First Aid for these injuries
15. Wound Care
    • Prevention of further contamination and infection of wounds
    • Use of dressings, bandages, slings
    • Control of external bleeding from wounds with embedded objects, wounds from nose, gums, tongue and cheek
    • First Aid for wound in palm of the hand
    • Recognition and first Aid for abdominal wounds
16. Multiple Casualty Management
    • Establishment of priority scale for injuries
    • Provision of emergency care for multiple casualties according to changing priorities
    • Ongoing casualty care for multiple casualties
17. Rescue Carries
    • Principles of safety when moving a casualty
    • Moving a casualty from a life-threatening situation and/ or without a stretcher
18. Eye Injuries
    • Prevention of eye injuries
    • First Aid for foreign objects in eye, wounds in and around eyes and burns to the eye
19. Burns
    • Prevention and type of burns
    • Recognition of burns
    • First Aid for burns
20. Poison, Bites and Stings
    • Prevention of poisonings
    • Recognition of poisoning
    • First Aid for poisoning, bites and stings
21. Medical Conditions
    • Recognition of Diabetic emergencies, epileptic seizure, convulsions in children, asthma attack and allergic reaction
    • Appropriate First Aid
22. Environmental Illness and Injuries
    • Preventative measures for heat and cold injuries and illnesses
    • First Aid for Hypothermia, frost bite, heat cramps, heat stroke, heat exhaustion
23. Emergency Childbirth & Miscarriage
    • Recognition of imminent childbirth and signs of miscarriage
    • Preparations for emergency delivery
    • First Aid for childbirth and miscarriage
24. Automated External Defibrillation
    • Principles of defibrillation
    • When and when not to use the AED
    • Function of an AED
    • How to use the AED
    • Special circumstances
    • Protocol for shockable and non-shockable rhythms

Crisis Solutions provides an in-house St. John Ambulance instructor and Alberta College of Paramedics registered Emergency Medical Responder for recertification and further treatment skills.