Students must provide evidence of CPR certification prior to the last day of class. See syllabus for further details.

Thygerson, A. L., Thygerson, S. M., Gulli, B., Mell, H. K., & Elling, B. (2017). First aid, CPR, and AED: Advanced (7th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN 9781284162776

You are not required to have the online access for this course. The book in any form is all that is required.

2 hours. This course provides certification for first aid and CPR.

This course introduces the students to basic medical technology, emergency response procedures, and first-aid.  This includes cardiac and breathing emergencies, as well as bleeding and shock.  Community CPR and two person CPR for adult, child, and infant will be discussed and tested throughout the course.  Healthy lifestyles will be discussed as well.

Students must obtain a Professional Rescuer card and a Responding to Emergencies first aid card.

Upon successful completion of the course, each participant should be able to:

• Determine emergency supplies and equipment needed for emergency coverage. This includes biohazard wastes, splints, emergency tools, and primary survey instruments.  
• Appreciate the roles and responsibilities of various community based emergency care personnel including hospital trauma level systems
• Understand the body systems.
• Understand the healthy lifestyle regimen including injury prevention and safety.
• Describe principals and rationale for a primary survey of the airway, breathing, and circulation.
• Describe the different components of secondary survey.
• Understand the role of rescue breathing with a bag-valve-mask and a protective pocket mask and applying these skills in CPR. Also understanding proper care for choking.
• Understand, obtain, and perform skills in establishing and managing an airway, as well as CPR on an adult, child, infant.
• Describe, recognize, and care for cardiac emergencies and the role of automatic external defibrillators (AED) in emergency management of acute heart failure and abnormal heart rhythms.
• Describe management of external hemorrhaging, tourniquets, using universal precautions, proper disposal of biohazardous materials.
• Recognize signs and symptoms of shock, different types of shock, and management of each. Also proper care and positioning of a person during shock.
• Recognize soft tissue injuries, dressings, care for wounds, burns, and special situations.
• Understand musculoskeletal injuries and care of them.
• Understand immobilization/splinting techniques for upper and lower extremity.
• Understand, recognize, and care for injuries to the head/neck/back.
• Understand, recognize, and care for injuries to the chest/abdomen.
• Understand, recognize, and care for seizures both epileptic and non-epileptic, diabetes, stroke
• Understand all information pertaining to poisons, bites, stings.