Standard First Aid with CPR/AED - Adult

American Red Cross First Aid with CPR/AED - Adult, trains participants to recognized ad care for life-threatening respiratory or cardiac emergencies in adults and provides the knowledge and skills needed to care for injury or sudden illness until professional medical help arrives. Training complements adult learning styles with hands-on practice and real-life scenarios while take-away materials serve as excellent refresher tools after training is complete. This comprehensive course meets training guidelines for first aid programs established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Topics covered include:

• Recognizing and respond to an emergency.
• How to care for a person who is choking.
• Checking an unconscious person for life-threatening and nonlife-threatening conditions.
• Recognizing and caring for a person who is not breathing.
• How to care for a heart attack and how to give CPR.
• Using and AED and identifying precautions when using and AED.
• Identifying the signs and symptoms of sudden illness, including stroke, diabetic emergency, poisoning and allergic reactions and care for them.
• Controlling bleeding.
• Recognizing and caring for heat- and cold-related emergencies.