Emergency First Aid – Early Childhood
You work in early childhood education, are a parent or occasionally responsible for young children? Knowing first aid basics can prove to be a major asset in emergency situations that affect children, since you can quickly and efficiently react!
With this 8-hour training, you will be able to recognize abnormal signs and symptoms that children can exhibit, and therefore apply the necessary emergency measures. You will, among other things, learn to identify common early childhood diseases and injuries, to provide basic treatments to immobilize a child’s injury, to use an automated external defibrillator (AED) and 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 award you will obtain will allow you to comply 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
- Valid for 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
Item 20a - Problems due to the cold
Item 20b - Problems due to the heat
TRAUMAS
Item 21 - Bleeding
Item 23b - Soft tissue injuries
Item 23d - Facial wounds
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.