First Responder to Emergency First Responder Bridge with BLS (FR to EMR bridge)
Course Description: If you have an interest in becoming a first responder then this is the course for you! Participants will receive skills and knowledge required to provide care at a professional level with scenario based training that reflects real-life situations.
Intended Audience: Professionals in a fire service, rescue team, workplace response team, sports-medicine professionals, lifeguards and ski patrol. Everyone ages 16 and over.
Course Prerequisites: Participant must have a First Responder certification
Course Overview:
Course content:
- The Professional Responder
- Responding to the call
- Infection prevention and control
- Anatomy and physiology
- Assessment
- Airway management and respiratory emergencies
- Circulatory emergencies
- Shock
- Hemorrhage and soft tissue trauma
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Chest, abdominal and pelvic injuries
- Head and spinal injuries
- Acute and chronic illnesses
- Poisoning
- Environmental illnesses
- Pregnancy, labour, and delivery
- Special populations
- Crisis intervention
- Reaching, lifting, and extricating patients
- Multiple-casualty incidents
- Includes any other content required by specific legislation
Course duration (time/days): 40 hours (1 week)
Certification: 3-year Red Cross certification in First Responder to Emergency Medical Responder Bridge with BLS (FR to EMR Bridge)
Course Materials:
Included in the course:
- Canadian Red Cross Emergency Care for Professional Responders Reference Text (eBook)
(Hard copy can be purchased, but it is not included in the course)
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