Sports First Responder Level 3 (VTQ)™
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Human anatomy and physiology for immediate emergency care
- Assessment of casualties in immediate emergency care
- 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
- 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
- Update on AED pad placement
- Using an AED on an adolescent
- Child AED
- Using an AED on an infant
- 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
- Management of medical conditions
- Support the emergency care of wounds, bleeding and burns
- The Pulse
- Capillary Refill
- The Healing Process
- Types of Bleed
- Serious Bleeding
- Ambulance Dressings
- Trauma and Standard Dressings
- Excessive Blood Loss
- Excessive Bleeding Control
- Blood Loss - A Practical Demonstration
- Embedded Objects
- Knife Wounds
- Using trauma dressings
- Amputation Treatment
- Blast Injuries
- Hemostatic Dressing or Tourniquet?
- Air Wrap Dressings
- RapidStop Tourniquet
- CAT Tourniquets
- SOFT-T tourniquet
- STAT Tourniquets
- citizenAID Tourni-Key Plus tourniquet
- Improvised Tourniquets
- Tourniquets and Where to Use Them
- Damage caused by tourniquets
- When Tourniquets Don't Work - Applying a Second
- Hemostatic Dressings
- 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
- Pelvic Injuries
- Spinal Injuries
- SAM Pelvic Sling
- Box Splints
- Spinal Injury
- 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
- Instant Cold Packs
- Instant Heat Packs
- 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
- 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®
- Storage and disposal
- Who prescribes auto injectors?
- Checking Auto Injector and Expiry Dates
- Signs and Symptoms of Anaphylaxis
- 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
- Course Summary and your Practical Part
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We have spoken about CPR and what we are doing until the AED arrives. What we are going to do now is just briefly look at what an AED unit is and why we want to use one. An AED is an automatic external defibrillator. Now, one of the myths of an AED unit is that it actually starts the heart, but what is actually happening is it interrupts the abnormal twitching of the heart that hopefully then, the pacemakers will fire and restart the heart in a normal beating pattern. When someone needs CPR, the heart does not always just stop. Electric activity in the heart can cause it to quiver. This is not producing any meaningful pulse. By delivering a shock across the heart, we interrupt this electric activity and hope that naturally will start beating normally again. AED units will only advise of a shock if they detect what's called a shockable rhythm. A shockable rhythm would be when the heart goes into VF, ventricular fibrillation or pulseless VT, ventricular tachycardia. Now, from a first aid point of view, we do not need to worry about the difference because the unit will detect it and decide if it is shockable or not shockable. If it's not shockable, this would mean that the heart is beating normally, called a normal sinus rhythm or its flatline called asystole. There are many different types of AED unit, but they all work in the same way and they all talk you through using them. Some, you have to push a shock button when advised, these are called semi-automatic AEDs, and the others may automatically shock. These are called automatic AEDs. In the coming videos, we are to look at AEDs in more depth and how to use them.
Understanding Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs)
1. What is an AED?
An AED, or automatic external defibrillator, explained.
There is a common misconception that AEDs restart the heart, but their role is to interrupt abnormal heart activity.
2. AEDs and Heart Function
Understanding how AEDs work to restore a normal heart rhythm.
- Electric activity in the heart can lead to abnormal twitching rather than a meaningful pulse.
- An AED delivers a shock to interrupt this electric activity, allowing the heart's natural pacemakers to restart it in a normal rhythm.
- AEDs advise a shock only when detecting specific shockable rhythms, such as ventricular fibrillation (VF) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT).
3. Types of AED Units
Exploring different AED models and their operation.
- Semi-automatic AEDs require manual activation of the shock button when advised.
- Automatic AEDs initiate shocks automatically when necessary.
4. Future AED Videos
Stay tuned for upcoming videos that delve into AEDs in greater detail and provide guidance on their usage.
- IPOSi Unit two LO1.5 & 2.4
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