✔️First Aid Basics:
Understanding the goals of first aid
How to assess a situation and prioritize actions
Basic medical terminology
Legal considerations (Good Samaritan laws)
Personal safety and use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
✔️Patient Assessment:
How to check for responsiveness
Assessing the victim's airway, breathing, and circulation (ABCs)
✔️Choking:
Recognizing the signs of choking
Heimlich maneuver (abdominal thrusts) for adults and children
Techniques for infants
✔️Bleeding Control:
How to control bleeding using direct pressure, dressings, and tourniquets
Recognizing signs of shock and how to treat it
✔️Wound Care:
Cleaning and dressing minor and major wounds
Recognizing signs of infection
✔️Burns:
How to assess the severity of a burn
Proper first aid treatment for different types of burns
✔️Fractures, Sprains, and Dislocations:
Recognizing signs and symptoms
How to immobilize injuries using splints or slings
✔️Medical Emergencies: (how to recognize and what actions to take in the following situations)
Heart attack
Stroke
Seizures
Diabetic emergencies
Allergic reactions (anaphylaxis) and use of an epinephrine auto-injector.
✔️Environmental Emergencies:
Heat exhaustion and heatstroke
Hypothermia and frostbite
Poisoning
Bites and stings
✔️Additional topics:
Moving and transporting victims
First aid kits
Narcan