First Aid - For Experienced Rescuers (Level III)

The program is created for teams that operate in high-risk environments.

Topics include: a brief overview of respiratory and cardiovascular system anatomy/physiology, adult/child/infant CPR with AED use, management of foreign body airway obstruction, ensuring airway patency with simple devices (oropharyngeal/nasopharyngeal airways, suction), oxygen delivery techniques (simple and reservoir masks, nasal cannula), artificial ventilation using pocket mask and bag-valve-mask (Ambu bag), wounds and bleeding, shock, life-threatening medical conditions (cardiac arrest, heart attack, stroke, seizure, diabetes, asthma, anaphylaxis), systematic assessment of the victim (primary/secondary), trauma, burns, conditions caused by environmental factors (heat stroke, hypothermia, frostbite), poisoning and animal bites.

• Effective performance of adult and child/infant CPR and safe use of AED

• Ensuring airway patency with simple devices; selection and use of oxygen delivery methods, artificial ventilation using pocket mask and bag-valve-mask (Ambu bag)

• Conducting primary/secondary assessment of the victim in field conditions

• Primary management of head/spine, chest, abdomen, and extremity trauma

• Practical methods of immobilization (splints, triangular bandages, short/long backboards)

• Safe evacuation from the accident site

• Management of emergency medical conditions and emergency situations caused by environmental factors