Emergency First Response (EFR) courses encompass adult, child and infant CPR and first-aid skills, and incorporate Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) training and emergency oxygen use. Emergency First Response also offers comprehensive First Aid at Work courses, specifically designed to meet national and international compliance standards for CPR and first-aid courses in the workplace. Emergency First Response courses are flexible in design, to accommodate scheduling and training needs. They can be taught together or alone in any combination.

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The EFR courses build novice rescuer's confidence to provide care, when faced with a medical emergency. Participants learn and practice the same patient-care techniques and principles used by medical professionals, but at a lay-person level.

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Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR) course

Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR) teaches participants how to respond to life-threatening emergencies. The course focuses on primary care through a combination of knowledge development, skill development and realistic scenario practice to make sure participants have the confidence in their ability to provide care when emergency situations arise.

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Primary Care (CPR) skills taught in this course:

• Scene Assessment

• Barrier Use

• Primary Assessment

• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

• Serious Bleeding Management

• Shock Management

• Spinal Injury Management

• Conscious and Unconscious Choking Management

• Recommended Skills
  – Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Use
  – Emergency Oxygen Use.

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Emergency First Response Secondary Care (First Aid) course

Emergency First Response Secondary Care (First Aid) covers injuries or illnesses that are not immediately life threatening. Participants focus on secondary assessment and first aid, through knowledge development, skill development and realistic scenario practice.

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Secondary Skills taught in this course:

• Injury Assessment

• Illness Assessment

• Bandaging

• Splinting for Dislocations and Fractures

 

Includes first-aid treatment reference for the following emergencies:

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Allergic Reactions (including anaphylaxis), Asthma, Bruises, Burns, Chemical Burns, Choking (adult, child, infant), CPR (adult, child, infant), Cuts, Dental Injuries, Diabetic Problems, Dislocations and Fractures, Electrical Injuries, Eye Injuries, First Aid Kit Assembly, Fish-spine Injury, Frostbite, Heat Exhaustion, Heatstroke, Heart Attack, Hypothermia, Insect stings, Jellyfish stings, Octopus bites, Poisoning, Scrapes, Seizures, Snake bites, Spider bites, Sprains and Strains, Stroke,  and Temperature-related Injuries.

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Emergency First Response Care for Children course

The Emergency First Response Care for Children course is an innovative CPR, AED and First Aid training course that teaches participants how to provide emergency care for injured or ill children (ages one to eight) and infants less than one year old. Participants learn about the types of medical emergencies that children face, and how they differ from adults. 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.

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The Emergency First Response Care for Children course trains the lay rescuer to follow the same priorities of care used by medical professionals. The student masters the priorities and the procedures of patient care for infants and children in a non-stressful learning environment, which reduces the performance anxieties that interfere with learning and enhances confidence when rendering aid in a real medical emergency.

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The course includes both primary care (CPR) and secondary care (first aid) skills. The primary care portion of the course prepares the rescuer to help an infant or child with a life-threatening emergency such as choking or cardiac arrest. Secondary care focuses on developing first aid skills and building the rescuer’s confidence to help an infant or child in need when emergency medical services are either delayed or unavailable. The Care for Children course content is based on guidelines from the Pediatric Working Group of ILCOR.

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Care for Children, Primary Care Course Content:

• Scene Assessment, Barrier Use, Primary Assessment, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR, child and infant), Serious Bleeding Management, Shock Management, Spinal Injury Management, Conscious and Unconscious Choking Management (child and infant)

• Recommended Skill
  – Automated External Defibrillator (AED) use (child)

 

Care for Children, Secondary Care Course Content:

• Injury Assessment

• Bandaging

• Illness Assessment

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Emergency First Response Refresher Course

Time to refresh your CPR and first aid skills? Do you hold a CPR or First Aid certificate from another training organization? If so, you are eligible to attend the Emergency First Response Refresher course. Plus, you can get AED training, at the same time you refresh your CPR skills.

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This Emergency First Response course is a prerequisite for the PADI Rescue Diver course.