First Aid & CPR Essentials

First Aid Essentials or a Hands On Certification Course?

• First Aid & CPR Essentials. The page you are on. Eight modules across CPR, AED, assessment, injuries, illnesses and the OSHA duties.
• Emergency Action Plans. The plan around the responder: alarms, routes, head counts and who does what. View the Emergency Action Plans
• Evacuation Procedures in Industrial Environments. Moving everyone out safely when the emergency is the building rather than one person. View the Evacuation Procedures in Industrial Environments
• Accident Investigation. What happens afterwards: sequence of events, root cause and corrective action. View the Accident Investigation

What the First Few Minutes Decide, and Why CPR Buys Them

Module 1 opens on the argument the rest of the course rests on: what happens before the ambulance arrives changes the outcome.

• 100 to 120. Chest compressions stand in for a heart that has stopped, and the numbers are specific. The American Heart Association sets a rate of 100 to 120 compressions a minute at a depth of at least 5 cm, about 2 inches, in an adult.
• At least 5 cm. The course teaches compression fraction alongside rate, meaning the share of CPR time actually spent compressing. The American Heart Association target is at least 60 percent, which is why every pause for a pulse check or a swap costs circulation.
• 30 then 2. It then works the cycle: 30 compressions to 2 breaths for a single rescuer at any age, 15 to 2 for two rescuers on a child or infant, and a depth that changes with the size of the patient.
• Do not pause. And it is clear about when to stop. Exhaustion, an AED arriving, serious complications, or EMS taking over. Not a feeling that it is not working.

That is the case the course is built on. The skill is ordinary, the equipment is cheap, and nobody else is going to be there for the first few minutes.