Emergency First Aid – Early Childhood

You work in early childhood education, are a parent or occasionally responsible for young children? You want to learn the first aid standards required to react quickly in case of an emergency?  

 

With this 8-hour training, you will be able to recognize abnormal signs and symptoms that children can exhibit, to then apply the necessary emergency measures. You will, among other things, learn how to identify common early childhood diseases and injuries, how to provide basic treatments to immobilize a child’s injury, how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED) and how to administer epinephrin with an auto-injector. This course will also teach you how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a child and on an infant, and how to react in case of a respiratory emergency or a cardiac arrest. 

 

The course can be adapted to the needs of day camp counsellors, educators and other people who work with children. The certificate emitted is in compliance with the Educational Childcare Act (L.R.Q., c. S-4.1.1., a. 20), which states that “[a] permit holder must ensure that each childcare staff member holds a certificate not older than 3 years attesting that the member has successfully completed a minimum 8-hour standard first aid course or a minimum 6-hour refresher course updating the knowledge acquired as part of the standard first aid course”. 

  

MINIMUM TIME REQUIRED 

8 hours 

 

AWARD VALIDITY 

3 years 

 

COURSE CONTENT 

GENERAL ITEMS   

Item 1 - First aid basic principles 

Item 2 - Legal aspects of an intervention 

Item 5 - Communicating with the EMS 

Item 6 - Anatomy and physiology 

Item 7 - Prehospital assessment 

Item 8 - Primary assessment 

 

RESUSCITATION 

Item 10 - Chain of Survival™ 

Item 11 - Resuscitation techniques – Child and infant 

Item 12 - Airway obstruction – Conscious child and infant 

Item 13 - Airway obstruction – Unconscious child and infant 

Item 14 - Rescue breathing complications or specific situations 

Item 15 - AED operation 

Item 16 - Two-rescuer CPR and AED 

 

MEDICAL PROBLEMS   

Item 17 - Shock / fainting 

Item 19a - Cardiovascular emergencies 

Item 19b - Respiratory emergencies 

 

TRAUMAS   

Item 21 - Bleeding 

 

SPECIFIC ITEMS   

Item 24a - Prevention in sports and recreational settings – Prevention  

Item 24b - Prevention in sports and recreational settings – Intervention  

 

OTHER ITEMS   

Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux: Administrating epinephrine for acute anaphylactic type allergic reactions: People known to be allergic – 1.5 hour.