- Care For Children OFSTEAD APPROVED March - Course Information
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This is an OFSTED approved and sanctioned course.
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 ill or injured children and infants. 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.
EFR Care For Children course trains the lay rescuer to follow the same priorities of care as used by medical professionals. The student masters the priorities and 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
Skills taught on this course:
Scene safety assessment
Universal precautions –disease protection
Use of barriers
Primary Assessment, rescue breathing & CPR (Child & Infant)
Obstructed airway management
Serious bleeding management
Shock management
Spinal Injury management
Secondary Care
Bandaging
Injury assessment
Illness Assessment
The Course has also the following recommended modules:
Automated External Defibrillator training
Emergency Oxygen provider training


























