HLTH 1005 - Basic CPR, Red Cross

1. Understanding the Emergency Medical System
2. AED use for adults, children and infants
3. Breathing Emergencies
4. CPR for adults, children, and infants
5. Care for unconscious and conscious victims
6. Emergency action steps
7. Life threatening emergencies
8. Signs and symptoms of heart attack
9. Unconscious and conscious choking victims
10. Victim evaluation
11. Basic Pet first aid

1. identify the components of the Emergency Medical System.
2. demonstrate how to use an AED for an adult, child, and infant in cardiac arrest.
3. demonstrate how to give CPR to an adult, child and infant.
4. identify the precautions for using an AED.
5. recognize the signs of a heart attack.
6. explain the three emergency action steps to follow in an emergency
7. demonstrate how to use basic precautions when caring for victims of breathing and cardiac emergencies
8. demonstrate how to check an unconscious victim.
9. demonstrate how to care for a conscious and an unconscious choking victim.
10. identify the procedures for victim evaluation.
11. demonstrate the techniques used to dislodge an object from the blocked air passage of conscious or unconscious victim.
12. demonstrate the basic skills for pet first aid.

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