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| 1. Description - |
| This course is designed to provide the layperson with the knowledge and skills to respond to an emergency. The course will provide certification opportunity in First Aid and CPR/AED as well as Professional Rescuer.
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| Prerequisite: None
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| Co-requisite: None
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| Advisory: None
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| 2. Course Objectives - |
| The student will be able to:
- Respond to emergency situations, assessing victims and providing critical life support.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the human body
- Demonstrate procedures for adult and child basic life support
- Assess and demonstrate safe techniques for bleeding control and prevention of shock
- Evaluate and manage head wounds
- Identify symptoms of poisoning and describe preventions
- Describe heat and cold related emergencies and demonstrate first response techniques
- Demonstrate how to care for a muscle, bone or joint injury.
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| 3. Special Facilities and/or Equipment - |
| - Certification courses must be taught by a currently authorized Red Cross Instrutor in any Lay Responder First Aid and CPR/AED Emergency Response or Lifeguarding program.
- When taught as an online distance learning or hybrid section, students and faculty need ongoing and continuous email access.
- Equipment: Six to ten Manniquen's and AED units for CPR skill development/demonstration; required video/DVD and teacher manuals; and appropriate Personal Protective Equipment required by Red Cross. The equipment can be purchased or rented through local American Red Cross office.
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| 4. Course Content (Body of knowledge) - |
| - Respond to emergency situations, assess victims
- Describe factors for bystander intervention
- Demonstrate scene survey at emergency site
- Demonstrate safety precautions before intervention
- List ways to desensitize yourself while helping a victim
- Demonstrate recovery position and H.A.I.N.E.S.
- Demonstrate knowledge of anatomy and physiology
- Describe the role of nervous system in reaction to an emergency
- Identify the major components of skeletal system
- Demonstrate the ability to monitor pulse at five locations in the body
- Demonstrate procedures for adult and child basic life support
- Demonstrate and practice conscious and unconscious adult and child airway obstruction techniques
- Demonstrate adult and child rescue breathing
- Identify differences between adult and child basic life support
- Describe and demonstrate when and how to perform CPR and use AED for adult or child
- Assess and demonstrate safe techniques for bleeding control and prevention of shock
- Demonstrate the ability to control bleeding and apply pressure
- Describe safety in protecting yourself from blood borne pathogens
- Demonstrate actions for immediate response to shock
- Evaluate and manage head wounds
- concussion
- bleeding
- embedded object
- Identify symptoms of poisoning and describe prevention standards
- Describe the differences and symptoms of poisoning frequency as versus poisoning severity
- Identify the symptoms and treatment for alcohol poisoning
- Describe immediate plan for ingested poisonous substances
- Identify poison prevention standards
- Describe heat and cold related emergencies and demonstrate first response techniques
- Describe and demonstrate immediate response to heat injuries
- Describe emergency response for hypothermia and frostbite
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| 5. Repeatability - Moved to header area. |
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| 6. Methods of Evaluation - |
| - Evaluation will be based on an individual practice - daily effort and improvement.
- Certification process entirely established by American Red Cross and taught by certified American Red Cross Instructor. Certification requires include all of the following:
- Certification fee TBA and required by each individual attempting certification. Fee established by American Red Cross and collected by instructor prior to written exams.
- Attend and participate in all course sections.
- Participate in all skills sessions.
- Demonstrate competency in all required skills listed on Red Cross First Aid and CPR/AED checklist.
- Pass each section of the written exam with a score of 80 percent or better.
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| 7. Representative Text(s) - |
| First Aid/CPR/AED Participant's Manual (American Red Cross Item #656731)
CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and Health Care Providers (American Red Cross Item #652168)
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| 8. Disciplines - |
| Physical Education
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| 9. Method of Instruction - |
| Lecture, Discussion, Oral presentations, Electronic discussions/chat, Laboratory, Demonstration,
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| 10. Lab Content - |
| - Respond to emergency situations, assess victims
- Demonstrate scene survey at emergency site
- Demonstrate safety precautions before intervention
- Demonstrate recovery position and H.A.I.N.E.S.
- Demonstrate procedures for adult and child basic life support
- Demonstrate and practice conscious and unconscious adult and child airway obstruction technques
- Demonstrate adult and child rescue breathing
- Identify differences between adult and child basic life support
- Describe and demonstrate when and how to perform CPR and use AED for adult or child
- Assess and demonstrate safe techniques for bleeding control and prevention of shock
- Demonstrate the ability to control bleeding and apply pressure
- Demonstrate actions for immediate response to shock
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| 11. Honors Description - No longer used. Integrated into main description section. |
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| 12. Types and/or Examples of Required Reading, Writing and Outside of Class Assignments - |
| Watch American Red Cross videos instructing in First Aid and CPR/AED techniques.
Read American Red Cross Manual on First Aid and CPR/AED techniques and knowledge.
Complete review quizzes on First Aid and CPR/AED techniques and knowledge.
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| 13. Need/Justification - |
| This course is a restricted support course for the AS degree in Athletic Injury Care and satisfies the Foothill GE Requirement for Area VII, Lifelong Learning.
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