Required Minimum Content for POST-certified First Aid/CPR/AED Course # 21797 (sample expanded course outline)

  1. Role of the public safety first aid provider
  2. Personal safety
  3. Scene size-up
  4. Body substance isolation, including removing gloves
  5. Integration with EMS personnel to include active shooter incidents
  6. Mass Casualty Responsibilities
  7. Personal protective equipment and first aid kits
  1. CPR and AED for adults, children, and infants, following current AHA Guidelines
  2. Chain of Survival
  3. Basic airway management
  4. Rescue breathing
  5. Mouth-to-Mouth
  6. Mouth-to-Mask
  7. Bag-valve-mask (BVM)
  8. Chest compressions and CPR/AED
  9. Basic AED operation
  10. Using the AED
  11. Troubleshooting and other considerations
  12. Single rescuer CPR/AED on adult, child and infant
  13. Two rescuer CPR/AED on adult, child and infant
  14. Recovery position
  1. Management of foreign body airway obstruction on adults, children, and infants
  2. Conscious patients
  3. Unconscious patients
  1. Recognition and identification of adult and pediatric patients for both medical and traumatic emergencies
  2. Performing a primary assessment
  3. Performing a secondary assessment
  4. Obtaining a patient history
  1. Medical emergencies
  2. Pain, severe pressure or discomfort in chest
  3. Breathing difficulties, including asthma and COPD
  4. Allergic reaction and anaphylaxis
  5. Assisted administration of epinephrine auto-injector
  6. Altered mental status
  7. Stroke
  8. Diabetic emergencies
  9. Administration of oral glucose
  10. Seizures
  11. Alcohol and drug emergencies
  12. Assisted naloxone administration and accessing EMS
  13. Severe abdominal pain
  14. Obstetrical emergencies
  15. Signs and symptoms of psychological emergencies
  1. Burns
  2. Identification and treatment
  1. Facial injuries
  2. Identification and treatment
  1. Environmental emergencies
  2. Heat emergencies
  3. Cold emergencies
  1. Poisoning
  2. Ingested poisoning
  3. Inhaled poisoning
  4. Exposure to chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) substances
  5. Recognition of exposure
  6. Scene safety
  7. Poison control system
  1. Patient movement
  2. Emergency movement of patients
  3. Lifts and carries which may include: using soft litters and manual extraction including fore/aft, side-by-side, shoulder/belt
  1. Tactical and rescue first aid principles applied to violent circumstances
  2. Principles of tactical casualty care
  3. Determining treatment priorities
  1. Trauma emergencies
  2. Soft tissue injuries and wounds
  3. Amputations and impaled objects
  4. Chest and abdominal injuries
  5. Review of basic treatment for chest wall injuries
  6. Application of chest seals
  7. Head, neck or back injury
  8. Spinal immobilization
  9. Musculoskeletal trauma and splinting
  10. Recognition of signs and symptoms of shock
  11. Basic treatment of shock
  12. Importance of maintaining normal body temperature
  13. Internal bleeding
  14. Control of external bleeding, including direct pressure, tourniquet, hemostatic dressings, chest seals and dressings
  15. Training in the use of hemostatic dressing shall result in competency in the application of hemostatic dressing. Included in the training shall be the following topics and skills:
  16. Review of basic methods of bleeding control to include but not be limited to direct pressure, pressure bandages, tourniquets, and hemostatic dressing and wound packing
  17. EMSA-approved hemostatic dressings
  1. Legal issues
  2. Authorized skills and liability limitations.
  1. Safety protocols
  1. Written, oral and/or demonstration assessment (in each topic area)