Course Content

• Course Introduction
  • Course introduction
  • Reading for Responders
• Principles of Ambulance Service First Responder Care
  • Responsibilities of the First Responder
  • The Importance of Being Physically and Mentally Fit to Perform the Role
  • Protecting Yourself from Potentially Malicious Allegations
  • Methods of Continuing Professional Development
  • Asking permission and consent to help
  • The Hazards that Pose a Risk to Personal Safety
  • Actions to Manage Conflict
  • Facts And Information About Abuse
  • What causes someone to be vulnerable?
  • Who might abuse or neglect
  • Who Is A Vulnerable Adult?
  • Abuse and its Indicators
  • Duty of care
• Human anatomy and physiology for immediate emergency care
  • Introduction to the Human Body
  • Anatomical Terminology
  • Respiratory Injuries Part One
  • Respiratory Injuries Part Two
  • Blood Vessels
  • The Circulatory System
  • The Skeletal System
  • The Muscular System
  • The Nervous System
  • Common Skeletal Injuries
• Assessment of casualties in immediate emergency care
  • Complex Scene safety scenario
  • Assessing a Major Incident Scene
  • DRCA(c)BCDE
  • Calling the Emergency Services
  • What3Words - location app
  • Alternative emergency phone numbers
  • Introduction to Initial Patient Care
  • Consent to help
  • Fears of First Aid
  • Waiting for the E.M.S to arrive
  • Chain of Survival
  • How to use face shields
  • Hand Washing
  • Waterless hand gels
  • Medications and First Aid
  • The Ten Second Triage Tool
  • Using The Ten Second Triage Tool
• How are 999 Calls Handled
  • How EMS calls are handled at a 999 call centre
• Basic airway management in emergency care
  • Respiration and Breathing
  • Postural Drainage
  • Peak Flow
  • Pocket Masks
  • Pocket Mask with Oxygen
  • Bag Valve Mask Equipment
  • Using a BVM
  • Respiratory Injuries Part Three
  • Respiratory Injuries Part Four
  • Choking Statistics
  • Choking Recognition
  • Adult Choking
  • Choking in children
  • Infant Choking
  • Trauma from Choking
  • Vulnerable People and Choking
• Basic life support and external defibrillation
  • Adult CPR Introduction
  • RCUK & ERC Resus Guidelines
  • When to call for assistance
  • Three Steps to Save a Life (2025)
  • Cardiac Arrest and CPR Overview
  • Adult CPR
  • CPR Hand Over
  • Compressions Only CPR
  • Mouth to Stoma Ventilations
  • CPR and the female casualty
  • Cardiac Arrest and Pregnancy
  • Paediatric Airway
  • Child CPR
  • Adolescent CPR
  • Infant CPR
  • Infant Recovery Position
  • Cardiac Arrest and the Drowned Patient
  • Drowning
  • SADS
  • Effective CPR
  • Improving compressions
  • Improving breaths
  • AED Introduction
  • Types of AED Units
  • AED Setup
  • How to Use an AED
  • Using an AED on an adolescent
  • Child AED
  • Using an AED on an infant
  • Update on AED pad placement
  • AED Maintenance
  • AED Pads
  • AED Batteries
  • AED Troubleshooting
  • AED Locations
  • Community AED Units
  • AED Post Resuscitation Procedures
  • CPR Risks
  • Advanced Decision and DNR CPR in Basic Life Support
  • Recognition and Management of Life Extinct
  • Post Resusitation Care
  • Real time CPR scenario
  • ROSC Care
• Paediatric Triage and Assessment
  • Paediatric triage - behaviour breathing and body colour BBB
• Management of medical conditions
  • Asthma
  • Asthma Spacers
  • When an Asthma inhaler is not available
  • Accuhaler®
  • Heart Attack
  • Warning signs of cardiac arrest and heart attack
  • Heart Attack Position
  • Aspirin and the Aspod
  • Stable angina
  • Hypertension
  • Pulse Oximetry
  • Epilepsy
  • Epilepsy treatment
  • Meningitis
  • Diabetes
  • Blood Sugar Testing
  • Poisons and Food Poisoning
  • Shock
  • Near and secondary drowning
  • Cold water shock
• Administration of Medications
  • Medications and the First Responder
  • Classification of Medications
  • Types of Medications and Routes of Entry
  • Medications Instructions
  • Recognising and Reporting Changes to the Individual
  • Medication expiry dates - Pharmacist
  • Analgesics
• Support the emergency care of wounds, bleeding and burns
  • The Pulse
  • Capillary Refill
  • The Healing Process
  • Types of Bleed
  • Serious Bleeding
  • Ambulance Dressings
  • Excessive Blood Loss
  • Excessive Bleeding Control
  • Blood Loss - A Practical Demonstration
  • Embedded Objects
  • Knife Wounds
  • Trauma and Standard Dressings
  • Using trauma dressings
  • Amputation Treatment
  • Blast Injuries
  • Hemostatic Dressing or Tourniquet?
  • Air Wrap Dressings
  • RapidStop Tourniquet
  • CAT Tourniquets
  • SOFT-T tourniquet
  • STAT Tourniquets
  • Improvised Tourniquets
  • Tourniquets and Where to Use Them
  • Damage caused by tourniquets
  • When Tourniquets Don't Work - Applying a Second
  • Hemostatic Dressings
  • What is Woundclot?
  • Woundclot trauma gauze
  • How Does Woundclot Work
  • Woundclot and knife injuries
  • Woundclot and large areas
  • Packing a Wound with Celox Z Fold Hemostatic Dressing
  • Celox A
  • Celox Granules
  • Monitoring a Patient
  • Coagulopathy
  • Burns and burn kits
  • Treating a burn
• Management of injuries
  • Prioritising first aid
  • Pelvic Injuries
  • Spinal Injuries
  • Rapid Extrication
  • SAM Pelvic Sling
  • Box Splints
  • Spinal Injury
  • Opening the airway Jaw Thrust
  • Stabilising the spine
  • Spinal Recovery Position
  • Introduction to Spinal Boards
  • The spinal board
  • Using the Spinal Board
  • The Scoop Stretcher
  • Using the scoop stretcher
  • Cervical collars
  • Vertical C-Spine Immobilisation
  • Joint examination
  • Adult fractures
  • Types of fracture
  • Horizontal Slings
• Management of trauma
  • Elevated Slings
  • Lower limb immobilisation
  • Elevation Techniques
  • Helmet Removal
  • Different Types of Helmets
  • The Carry Chair
  • Applying Plasters
  • Strains and Sprains and the RICE procedure
  • Eye Injuries
  • Electrical Injuries
  • Foreign objects in the eye, ears or nose
  • Nose bleeds
  • Bites and stings
  • Chest Injuries
  • Foxseal chest seals
  • Abdominal Injuries
  • Treating Snake Bites
  • Types of head injury and consciousness
  • Dislocated Shoulders and Joints
  • Other Types of Injury
  • Dental Injuries
• Trauma Scenario Examples
  • Scenario 1 catastrophic bleed
  • Scenario 2 catastrophic bleed
  • Scenario 3 entrapment
  • Scenario 4 dog bite
• Recognition and management of anaphylaxis
  • What is Anaphylaxis
  • Living with Anaphylaxis
  • Minor allergic reactions
  • Common causes of allergic reactions
  • What is an Auto-Injector?
  • Jext®
  • EpiPen®
  • Adrenaline nasal spray for anaphylaxis
  • Storage and disposal
  • Who prescribes auto injectors?
  • Checking Auto Injector and Expiry Dates
  • Signs and Symptoms of Anaphylaxis
  • Basic First Aid Advice
  • Schools and teachers
  • Giving a second dose
  • Biphasic Anaphylactic Response
• Administration of oxygen therapy
  • What are Medical Gasses
  • Oxygen
  • When Oxygen is Used
  • Contra Indications Of Oxygen
  • Hazards of using oxygen
  • Hypoxia
  • BOC Oxygen Kit
  • The BOC Cylinder
  • Storage Of Oxygen
  • PIN INDEX cylinder
  • Oxygen Regulators
  • Standard oxygen cylinder
  • Transport of Cylinders
  • How long does an Oxygen cylinder last?
  • Oxygen and Anaphylaxis
  • Demand Valves and MTV's
  • Non Rebreather Mask
  • Nasal Cannula
  • Medical gas storage
• Mental Health
  • Recognising mental ill health
  • Mental Health definition and terminology
  • Mental health, stereotyping, stigma and discrimination
  • Who can be affected and what are the common triggers
  • What is stress
  • Anxiety
  • Types of mental ill health
  • Starting a discussion
  • Supporting someone with suicidal thoughts
  • What is signposting
• Course Summary and your Practical Part
  • Classroom Part of IREC® Course
  • Course Summary