Instructor Preparation - Online Blended Part 1
Course Content
- Instructor preparation and update course introduction
- FAW Blended Part One Introduction and Regulations
- The Human Body
- First Aid the Initial Steps
- Asking permission and consent to help
- Calling the Emergency Services
- What3Words - location app
- Waiting for the E.M.S to arrive
- Scene Safety
- Chain of Survival
- DRcABCDE approach
- Using gloves
- How to use face shields
- Hand Washing
- Waterless hand gels
- Initial Assessment and Recovery Position
- BSi First Aid Kit
- Cardiac Arrest and Heart Conditions
- Adult CPR Introduction
- RCUK & ERC Resus Guidelines
- Heart Attack
- Heart Attack Position
- Aspirin and the Aspod
- Respiration and Breathing
- Pulse Points
- When to call for assistance
- Three Steps to Save a Life (2025)
- Adult CPR
- Effective CPR
- Improving breaths
- Improving compressions
- Compressions Only CPR
- CPR Hand Over
- Seizures and Cardiac Arrest
- Drowning
- AED Introduction
- Using an AED - brief overview and demonstration
- Choking Management
- Bleeding Control
- Catastrophic Bleeding
- Why is this Training Now Required?
- Prioritising first aid
- Bleeding assessment
- Blood Loss - A Practical Demonstration
- Hemostatic Dressing or Tourniquet?
- Tourniquets and Where to Use Them
- Types of Tourniquets
- Improvised Tourniquets
- When Tourniquets Don't Work - Applying a Second
- Hemostatic Dressings
- Packing a Wound with Celox Z Fold Hemostatic Dressing
- The Woundclot range
- How Does Woundclot Work
- Woundclot features
- Woundclot and direct pressure
- Packing a wound with Woundclot
- Woundclot and knife injuries
- Woundclot and large areas
- Shock and Spinal Injury
- Injuries
- Secondary Care Introduction
- Injury Assessment
- Strains and Sprains and the RICE procedure
- Adult fractures
- Splints
- Dislocated Shoulders and Joints
- Types of head injury and consciousness
- Eye Injuries
- Foreign object in the eye
- Burns and burn kits
- Treating a burn
- Blister Care
- Electrical Injuries
- Abdominal Injuries
- Chest Injuries
- Heat emergencies
- Cold emergencies
- Dental Injuries
- Bites and stings
- Treating Snake Bites
- Splinters
- Illness
- Introduction to Paediatric and Adult First Aid
- Paediatric CPR and Choking
- Specific Paediatric Conditions
- How to use an AED
- Extra Subjects to allow you to teach specialist courses
- Teaching Equipment
- Summary
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AED Introduction
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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.
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