QCTO First Aid Courses

Focused on practical knowledge and safety principles, the course covers a wide range of critical topics necessary for effective first aid response in various emergency situations. Participants will learn through a blend of theoretical knowledge and hands-on practice, ensuring they are prepared to handle real-life emergencies confidently.

1. The Emergency Scene Management
2. Principles of First Aid and Safety
3. Anatomy and Physiology
4. Basic Life Support – CPR & AED
5. Examination of the patient
6. Shock
7. head, neck and Spinal injuries
8. Moving Patients
9. Choking
10. Wounds and Bleeding
11. Burns
12. Bone, Joint and Muscle Injuries
13. Poisons, Bites and Stings
14. Environmental Emergencies

This three-day accredited course builds upon basic first aid principles to provide a deeper understanding and more advanced techniques in emergency response. Designed for those who have foundational knowledge or have completed a basic first aid course, this training emphasises practical skills and detailed knowledge necessary to manage a wider range of medical emergencies with confidence and competence.

• The Emergency Scene Management
• Anatomy and Physiology
• Basic Life Support – CPR & AED
• Bleeding and Wounds
• Musco-Skeletal Injuries – Fractures & Joints
• Head and Spinal Injuries
• Various Injuries – Chest, Hand, Eye & Ear, Pelvic and Abdominal And Crush Injuries.
• Medical Emergencies – Diabetes, Epilepsy & Fits, Asthma, Anaphylaxis, Cardiac Problems
• Burn Wounds
• Poisoning, Bites and Stings
• Transport Methods

The Advanced Emergency First Aid Responder course is a comprehensive, five-day program designed to enhance the skills and knowledge of individuals in managing emergency situations across a variety of scenarios. This advanced-level course combines theoretical instruction with practical training, preparing participants to effectively handle complex medical emergencies, assess and manage multiple injury cases, and deliver care with professional competence.

• Principals of first aid and safety
• Universal precautions.
• Ethics related to emergency care.
• The first responder and the law.
• Preparedness to deal with sudden illness or emergency at an advanced level.
• Emergency scene/disaster assessment and management.
• Multiple injury management.
• Applied anatomy and physiology.
• Disorders and/or diseases affecting specific body systems.
• Primary survey.
• Artificial respiration.
• Managing a choking victim.
• One and two-rescuer CPR (adults, children and infants).
• Recovery positions with and without a spinal board and spider harness.
• Transporting the patient according to the injury, disorder or condition of the patient/s and available means of transport, rescue carries.
• Oxygen therapy.
• Pulse sites and pulse monitoring.
• Emergency treatment of shock (hypovolemic, cardiogenic and anaphylactic).
• Secondary survey.
• Wounds and bleeding; soft tissue injuries.
• General principles of fractures and the threatened limb.
• Head and spinal injuries.
• Joint injuries, strains and sprains.
• Hand and eye injuries, Chest injuries, sucking chest wound, flail chest.
• Pelvic, abdominal and crush injuries.
• Burns
• Poisoning, bites and stings.
• Common medical emergencies: chest pain and paralysis; breathlessness, croup, asthma, epileptic seizures, stroke, diabetes and skin reactions.
• Environmental illness and injuries – hyperthermia, hypothermia and drowning.
• Common infectious diseases, severe headaches, excessive diarrhoea, vomiting, any type of haemorrhage.
• Emergency childbirth.