Emergency First Aid IRS

You work in a sport or recreational environment as a coach or a referee, or volunteer for a sports team? You must then be well-aware that incidents can quickly arise and know how important it is to promptly react in such emergency situations. 

The Lifesaving Society is the only organization that offers this comprehensive course, which has been developed in collaboration with the Conseil de médecine du sport du Québec. With this 8-hour training, you will quickly recognize abnormal signs and symptoms that can occur during sports and recreational activities, such as signs of a concussion. You will therefore be able to apply the necessary emergency measures and determine when the injured player is ready for a comeback. 

Moreover, you willlearn how to provide basic treatments to immobilize an 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 an adult and on a child, and how to react in case of a respiratory emergency or a cardiac arrest. 

This course can be adapted according to the type of sport or recreational environment in which the participants work. 

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 – Adult and child 

Item 12 - Airway obstruction – Conscious adult and child 

Item 13 - Airway obstruction – Unconscious adult and child 

Item 14 - Rescue breathing complications 

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.