The Occupational First Aid Refresher training, to be delivered in Limerick as a one-day public course is essential for certified First Aiders to keep up with developments in First Aid practice, and to refresh skills that may be only intermittently used.

Our Occupational First Aid Refresher course can be also delivered as customized in-house training at clients premises nationwide in Ireland, including Dublin, Cork, Limerick & Galway.

Pre-requirements:

Essential for Certified First Aiders who wish to retain their original certification.

Participants Study:

• Explain new developments in First Aid
• Demonstrate up-to-date practical skills

Course Contents:

• Unconsciousness: Examination of unconscious casualty – Recovery position
• Resuscitation:
• Brief anatomy and physiology of the heart and Lungs
• Definition, signs and causes of asphyxia
• Asphyxia Video
• Heimlich Manoeuvre
• Expired Air Resuscitation inc. mouth to nose
• External chest compressions
• Heart Attack
• Bleeding and Wounds:
• Brief anatomy and physiology of the circulatory system
• Control of Bleeding
• Wounds including amputation
• Wounds with a foreign body
• Internal Bleeding
• Injuries:
• Examination of the eye
• Treatment of foreign bodies and chemical splashes in the eye
• Burns and scalds
• Poisoning: Causes and Treatments