HLTAID014 Provide advanced first aid
This course covers a broad range of advanced skills and provides you with high level skills in management of large incidents, major trauma, emotionally disturbed and drug affected casualties.
HLTAID014 Provide advanced first aid
This course covers a broad range of advanced skills and provides you with high level skills in management of large incidents, major trauma, emotionally disturbed and drug affected casualties.
Enquire NowProvide advanced first aid is appropriate for people who work in high risk areas, act as first aiders to larger facilities or groups, or work in areas where help may be delayed or have difficulty accessing casualties. This course covers a broad range of advanced skills and provides you with high level skills in management of large incidents, major trauma, emotionally disturbed and drug affected casualties.
Course Outline
- Major trauma management
- Use of spine boards and stretchers
- Managing emotionally disturbed casualties
- Pulse, blood pressure and pupil reactions
- Medications
- Clinical assessments
- Pain management
- Body systems
- Drug and alcohol affected casualties
- Triage
- DRSABCD action plan
- Infection control
- Automated External Defibrillation (AED)
- Soft bag resuscitation
- Administration of oxygen
- Oxygen delivery systems
- Oxygen powered resuscitation
- Oropharyngeal airways
- Suction equipment
- Post incident stress management
On successful completion of this
course you will be issued a statement
of attainment in:
- HLTAID009 Provide cardiopulmonary
resuscitation - HLTAID010 Provide basic emergency
life support - HLTAID011 Provide First Aid
- HLTAID014 Provide advanced first
aid
St John recommends, as per the First Aid in the Workplace Code of Practice
and the Australian Resuscitation Council guidelines, that first aid skills are
renewed every 3 years and resuscitation skills are renewed every 12 months.
A successful outcome for this
statement of attainment will be
through a combination of practical first
aid activities and a written test paper.
You must be able to perform CPR on
the floor for 2 minutes.