Basic First Aid: How to Be an Everyday Hero

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Learn first aid with this online 2-week course. Just a little basic knowledge could help you save someone’s life.

This course will help you learn to recognize and manage an emergency situation, and to create a foundation on which to build later. 

During the course you will learn to: help someone who is choking, help someone who has lost consciousness, and help someone with a severe cut or laceration. 

Topics covered in this course include:

• The importance of first aid and knowing when to apply it
• How to recognize and manage a non-breathing unconscious patient
• How to recognize and manage a breathing unconscious patient
• How to manage an acute bleed
• Summarise how to help someone who is choking
• Discuss how to build on basic first aid skills

This course is for anyone who is interested in learning first aid. No medical experience required.

For more events check our online events calendar.