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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What we are going to do now is look at the Tourni-key Plus. Now, this is a very simple to use tourniquet that you can use on any catastrophic bleed from a limb. So, the kit itself is all in this bag here. You can either buy these as an individual bag, all sealed up like this, or we also sell these as parts of bleed kits. So we do an economical bleed kit, and we also do others, or you can have multiple packs of these. So if you are in a location where potentially there could be a terrorist attack or gunshots or knife wounds, and you might have, need lots of tourniquets, then you can have lots of these in one pack. On the side's a little nick, so you can very easily just tear it open, and once you've torn it open, just pull out the contents. And what you have got are three bits, there is the main instruction card here. And in the instruction card, it tells you all about how to use the tourniquet. And then if you open it up, there is more information in there exactly how to use it. So with the instructions, there are very simple picture diagrams.The Tourni-key itself is very strong plastic. It may look a bit odd, but it is a very simple way of tightening a piece of material around a limb. Now, you could use something like a tie or something like that, but you do not really wanna use something very tight that is going to cut into the skin because it literally will, you can get a lot of pressure. The whole point of putting Tourni-key on is to stop a bleed. So, in this example here, we have got someone with an amputation. So, we need to put the tourniquet on to stop the bleed. So, you will need to crush through the tissues of the body in order to block off all of the arteries and the venous return to stop that bleed. The final thing in the pack is a triangular bandage, and this is just a standard bandage, which is the material type of bandage. So, this would just unwrap, and then you've got yourself the Bain triangular bandage.So once you got your triangular bandage out, then you need to open it up. And you open it up, so you have got the long end, so this is the, a 90-degree corner at the bottom, and then just roll it up into what they call a broad fold bandage. So it literally just goes through this and just wind it around until you got no more to wrap up anymore... And then what we need to do with that is place it around the limb. Now, for this example, we have got a limb here, so you want to put it just above the limb that has been amputated. You do not want to ever put these over a joint. Pull it through in a half knot, and just tie that securely. And then, you are going to be putting a lot of pressure on here, so they have a little card that you can tuck underneath the bandage. So you just slide that underneath, that will just avoid any risk that when they tie a knot on, it is going to pinch too much onto the skin. We then need to take the Tourni-key, we need to just secure that in place. So if you have got two people, you can get your helper to do this, but what we will do is just tie it up and we are just tying that in place. So, it is literally going across here, and then we can always just tie it on again... So that is now in place. So what you are going to do then, is you are going to wind that around and apply pressure.Now, this is on a mannequin leg. Now, if it was on a real person, as you wind it around, it would dig into the skin and cut the circulation. You will not do it so much on this one. So you literally just wind that around and you can get a lot of pressure on this until it is tight. So once it is tight since we have got now, take this end here and we are gonna just tuck it underneath the bandage... So, once it is gone through and then tuck it back in place. Now, this is easier to do on a real person, the problem with these legs is there is not much give in them. So that is now secured in place, it is tucked underneath the bandage, the tourniquet is on. If we needed to apply more pressure, we can turn it around another 180 degrees and tuck it in on this side or another 180 degrees and tuck it back over here. You tighten it up until the bleeding stops, so you will see the bleeding's stopped. The other key thing we need to do now is we need to note the time that this is going on. That is important. So you can write the time, you can write it on the patient's forehead, or on their head or somewhere, or at least note it down somewhere because you do need to tell the EMS what time this went on.Once it is on, you need to stabilize the patient. You need to treat them for shock. You need to be with them, you need to talk to them, you need to communicate. This is gonna be a very scary thing, it is going to be painful as well, but once that is on, and you tell them how important it is to put this on because we must keep as much of this blood in the body as possible. Whole-time that you are waiting for the EMS to arrive, just keep an eye on the limb. Make sure it is not started bleeding. If it is, you can apply more pressure on it, or you can always put another tourniquet on above this one, but remember, you do not want to be going over a joint, so if it is close to the bottom of the knee, the only place you can put it is higher up, then you would need to put that higher up. If you are interested in finding more information about the Tourni-key, or you want to purchase one, then go to our website, which is firstaidonline.co.uk. You can email us on suppliers at protrainings.uk, or you can give us a ring and we give you more information about the Tourni-Key and also the other bleed packages that we offer.
How to Use the Tourni-Key Plus for Catastrophic Bleeding
The Tourni-Key Plus is a simple tourniquet designed to help stop catastrophic bleeding from a limb. This guide will explain its usage and components.
Contents of the Tourni-Key Plus Kit
The Tourni-Key Plus kit comes in a sealed bag, which can be purchased individually or as part of a bleed kit. The kit contains three main components:
- Instruction card: Provides step-by-step instructions on using the tourniquet, including visual diagrams.
- Tourni-Key: Made from strong plastic, this device tightens a bandage around a limb to stop bleeding.
- Triangular bandage: A standard material bandage used to wrap around the limb.
Using the Tourni-Key Plus
- Unwrap the triangular bandage and roll it into a broad fold bandage with a 90-degree corner at the bottom.
- Place the bandage around the limb just above the injury, avoiding any joints. Secure it with a half knot.
- Slide the provided card under the bandage to protect the skin from pinching.
- Secure the Tourni-Key on top of the bandage by tying it in place.
- Wind the Tourni-Key to apply pressure and stop the bleeding. Tighten it until the bleeding stops.
- Tuck the end of the Tourni-Key underneath the bandage to secure it.
- Note the time the tourniquet was applied, as this information is crucial for EMS personnel.
Once the tourniquet is in place, focus on stabilising the patient and treating them for shock. Continuously monitor the limb to ensure the bleeding doesn't resume. If necessary, apply more pressure or add another tourniquet above the first one, avoiding joints.
Where to Find More Information and Purchase the Tourni-Key Plus
For more information or to purchase the Tourni-Key Plus, visit firstaidonline.co.uk, email supplies@protrainings.uk, or call ProTrainings to learn more about the Tourni-Key and other bleed packages offered.
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