Course Content

• Initial Introduction to Basic Life Support
  • Course introduction
  • Basic Life Support Course Overview
  • Optional basic life support practical by Zoom (optional)
  • Fears of First Aid
  • Asking permission and consent to help
  • Calling the Emergency Services
  • What3Words - location app
  • Waiting for the E.M.S to arrive
  • Scene Safety
  • Chain of Survival
  • ABCDE Approach to Patient Care
  • Initial Assessment and Recovery Position
  • Using gloves
  • How to use face shields
  • Hand Washing
  • Bag Valve Masks
  • Infant Recovery Position
  • Differences in Child Size
• Cardiac Arrest and CPR
  • Adult CPR Introduction
  • RCUK & ERC Resus Guidelines
  • When to call for assistance
  • Heart Attack
  • Heart Attack Position
  • Aspirin and the Aspod
  • Adult CPR
  • CPR Hand Over
  • Compressions Only CPR
  • CPR and the female casualty
  • AED Introduction
  • Child CPR
  • Infant CPR
  • Drowning
  • Improving compressions
  • Improving breaths
  • Seizures and Cardiac Arrest
  • Advanced Decision and DNR CPR in Basic Life Support
• Choking Management
  • Choking Recognition
  • Adult Choking
  • Choking in children
  • Infant Choking
• Summary
  • Oxygen for First Aid
  • Course Summary