The Heartsaver First Aid Course is designed to prepare people to provide First Aid in a safe, timely, and effective manner. The course goals include cognitive and psychomotor objectives.
- Review the first aid steps for medical emergencies.
- Breathing problems, chest pain & heart attack, fainting, diabetes, stroke, & seizures.
- Heimlich maneuver.
- Review the first aid steps for injury emergencies.
- Bleeding, mouth injuries, shock, broken bones, sprains & bruises, burns & electrocution.
- Review the first aid steps for environmental emergencies.
- Bites & stings, temperature-related emergencies & poison emergencies.
- Administration of an epinephrine pen.
- Course meets the requirements for Basic First Aid, American Heart Association certification valid for two years.
