First Responder (FR to EMR bridge)
If you have an interest in becoming a first responder then this is the course for you! Participants will receive skills and knowledge required to provide care at a professional level with scenario based training that reflects real-life situations.
Intended Audience
Professionals in a fire service, rescue team, workplace response team, sports-medicine professionals, lifeguards and ski patrol.
Course Overview
- The Professional Responder
- Responding to the call
- Infection prevention and control
- Anatomy and physiology
- Assessment
- Airway management and respiratory emergencies
- Circulatory emergencies
- Shock
- Hemorrhage and soft tissue trauma
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Chest, abdominal and pelvic injuries
- Head and spinal injuries
- Acute and chronic illnesses
- Poisoning
- Environmental illnesses
- Pregnancy, labour and delivery
- Special populations
- Crisis intervention
- Reaching, lifting and extricating patients
- Multiple-casualty incidents
Includes any other content required by specific legislation
Course Prerequisites
None
Course Duration
40 hours
Completion:
- Successfully demonstrate the required skills
- Minimum 75% mark for written, closed book, knowledge evaluation
- Successfully complete minimum of one practical scenario
- Attend and participate in 100% of the course
Upcoming Courses
We do not currently have any upcoming sessions of this course scheduled.
Prerequisites
None
Required Materials
- Canadian Red Cross Emergency Care for Professional Responders Reference Text
- Canadian Red Cross Emergency Care for Professional Responders Workbook (optional)