Paediatric First Aid 11/12/20

The classroom part of the Level 3 Paediatric First Aid course lasts for a minimum of 6 hours (excluding breaks) and will cover the following areas:

• assessing an emergency situation and prioritise what action to take,

• help a baby/child who isunresponsive and breathing normally, unresponsive and not breathing normally, having a seizure, choking, bleeding, suffering from shock caused by severe blood loss (hypovolemic shock).
  

The full blended Paediatric First Aid course should last for a minimum of 12 hours (excluding breaks) and will cover the areas set out above as well as the following areas:

• discuss the role and responsibilities of the paediatric first aider (including appropriate contents of a first aid box and the need for recording accidents and incidents), to help a baby/child:who is suffering from anaphylactic shock, who has had an electric shock, who has burns or scalds, who has a suspected fracture, with head, neck or back injuries, who is suspected of being poisoned, with a foreign body in…