The Emergency First Response Care for Children course is an innovative CPR, AED
and First Aid training course that teaches participants how to provide emergency
care for injured or ill children (ages one to eight) and infants less than one year
old.
Participants learn about the types of medical emergencies that children face, and
how they differ from adult conditions. The curriculum also includes the importance
of attending to basic emergency situations with children, the emotional aspects
of caring for children, secondary care for children, and preventing common injuries
and illnesses in children.
Emergency First Response Care for Children course trains the lay rescuer to follow
the same priorities of care used by medical professionals. The student masters the
priorities and the procedures of patient care for infants and children in a non-stressful
learning environment, which reduces the performance anxieties that interfere with
learning and enhances confidence when rendering aid in a real medical emergency.
The course includes both primary care (CPR) and secondary care (first aid) skills.
The primary care portion of the course prepares the rescuer to render aid to an
infant or child with a life-threatening emergency such as choking or cardiac arrest.
Secondary care focuses on developing secondary patient care skills and building
the rescuer's confidence to render first aid to an infant or child in need when
emergency medical services are either delayed or unavailable. The Care for Children
course content is based on guidelines from the Pediatric Working Group of ILCOR.
- Scene Safety Assessment
- Universal Precautions-Communicable Disease Protection
- Barrier Use Primary Assessment Obstructed Airway Management (child
and infant)
- Rescue Breathing (child and infant)
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (child and infant)
- Automated External Defibrillator (AED) use
- Serious Bleeding Shock Management Spinal Injury Management
- Injury Assessment
- Bandaging
- Illness Assessment
