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$79
Plus membership
3 Credits
All courses include:
eTextbooks
2 to 3-day turnaround for grading
Multiple chances to improve your grade
On-demand tutoring & writing center
Student support 7 days a week
First Aid/CPR
$79
Plus membership
3 Credits
About This Course
ACE Approved 2022
First Aid/CPR teaches you how to recognize and treat life-threatening emergencies, even if you are a non-medical student.
What You'll Learn
Explain first aid principles, emergency responses, and initial and secondary patient assessment.
Recognize signs and symptoms of various medical emergencies and recommend first aid for each.
Recommend dressing and bandages for specific wounds and explain first aid for special wounds and steps to control external bleeding.
Compare and contrast types of burns and their effects, assess the severity of a burn, and demonstrate ways to provide first aid for various degrees and types of burns.
Assess head, spinal, and musculoskeletal injuries and demonstrate care for such injuries, including the use of splints and slings
Differentiate the effects of internal bleeding and chest and pelvic wounds and demonstrate specific first aid steps for each type of wound.
Assess problems of pregnancy, labor, and delivery and explain first aid for a pregnant woman and assisting at childbirth (including complications).
Recognize signs of emotional responses to injuries and illness, behavioral problems, and abuse and recommend responses to each.
Demonstrate choking care for responsive or unresponsive choking victims and explain the steps of the AED procedure.
Apply understanding of the respiratory system to explain rescue breaths and chest compressions for respiratory and cardiovascular emergencies
Assess severity of shock and heat and cold emergencies and explain first aid steps
Evaluate danger to victims trapped in various conditions and demonstrate techniques of rescuing and moving victims.
Recognize signs and symptoms of poisoning, substance abuse, and bites and stings and illustrate care for each.
Illustrate general principles for injuries in remote locations and care for specific injuries and wilderness emergencies.
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This course reviews how to first assess the victim then treat cardiovascular emergencies and external and internal injuries. Our online First Aid/CPR course also covers situations like emergencies in remote locations and childbirth emergencies.
There are no prerequisites to take First Aid/CPR.
Topic | Subtopics |
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Introduction to First Aid |
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Rescuing and Moving Victims |
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Medical Emergencies |
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Basic Life Support 1: Respiratory and Cardiovascular Emergencies |
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Basic Life Support 2: Choking and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) |
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External Injuries |
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Burns |
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Internal Injuries |
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Musculoskeletal Injuries |
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Poisoning, Substance Abuse, and Bites |
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Remote Location Emergencies |
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Environmental Emergencies |
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Behavioral Emergencies |
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Pregnancy and Childbirth |
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Your score provides a percentage score and letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher.
Assignments for this course include:
- 4 Graded Exams
- 1 Graded Midterm
- 1 Graded Final
Students may find new texts at https://www.redcross.org/store/books-and-dvds/firstaid-and-cpr-aed. Used, new, or rental copies may be available at resellers such as Amazon.
Required: American Red Cross. First Aid/CPR/AED Participant's Manual, StayWell, 2017, ISBN: 9781584806653
Recommended: American Red Cross. Responding to Emergencies: Comprehensive First Aid/CPR/AED, StayWell, 2017, ISBN: 9781584806844
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