HLTH 1010 - Standard First Aid and CPR, Red Cross

1. First Aid
2. Life threatening emergencies
3. Unconscious and conscious choking victims
4. Breathing Emergencies
5. CPR for adults, children, and infants
6. AED use for adults, children, and infants
7. Safety
8. Wound care
9. Bleeding
10. Shock
11. Poisoning
12. Fractures and splints
13. Understanding the Emergency Medical System
14. Emergency action steps
15. Victim evaluation
16. Care for unconscious and conscious victims
17. Signs and symptoms of heart attack
18. Basic Pet first aid and CPR

1. Define first aid and its practical uses.
2. Demonstrate how to care for a conscious and an unconscious choking victim.
3. Demonstrate how to check an unconscious victim.
4. Demonstrate how to give CPR to an adult, child and infant.
5. Demonstrate how to use an AED for an adult, child, and infant in cardiac arrest
6. Demonstrate how to use basic precautions when caring for victims of breathing and cardiac emergencies.
7. Demonstrate methods employed to bandage and prepare slings and splints for suspected fractures of upper and lower extremities.
8. Demonstrate methods used to render first aid to suspected victims of head and neck fractures.
9. Demonstrate the techniques used to control bleeding.
10. Demonstrate the techniques used to dislodge an object from the blocked air passage of conscious or unconscious victim.
11. Explain the three emergency action steps to follow in an emergency.
12. Identify safety strategies.
13. Identify the precautions for using an AED.
14. Identify the procedures for victim evaluation.
15. Identify visually the different types of bleeding.
16. List the emergency steps for treatment of poisoning by mouth or injection.
17. List the five types of wounds and first aid for each of them.
18. List the symptoms of shock and the techniques used to treat it.
19. Recognize the signs of a heart attack.
20. Identify the components of the Emergency Medical System.
21. Demonstrate basic skills in pet first aid and CPR.

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