Mines Rescue - Expert Training Courses - When safety is an issue

Target Audience

Those working in the Care and Education Service.

Objectives

By the end of the course candidates should be able to:

• Plan for first aid emergencies involving babies and children
• Deal with emergencies involving babies and children
• Recognise and respond to the emergency needs in babies and children with chronic medical conditions
• Recognise and respond to meningitis and other serious sudden illness

Duration

12 contact hours - 2 days

Benefits

To enable candidates to recognise and respond to the emergency needs in babies and children.

Outline content

• Emergency procedures
• Resuscitation techniques
• Anaphylactic shock
• Choking
• Febrile convulsions
• Meningitis and other serious sudden illness
• Bleeding
• Fractures
• Poisons
• Miscellaneous conditions