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  Basic Life Support and First Aid

The DAN Basic Life Support and First Aid (BLSFA) course provides entry-level training in providing basic life support (BLS) to adults with life-threatening injuries while activating emergency medical services (EMS).

Basic life support includes airway-management skills such as the log roll and recovery position, one-rescuer cardiopulmonary resuscitation, use of an automatic external defibrillator (AED) and additional skills like caring for a choking person, controlling bleeding and caring for a person in shock. The first aid portion of this program includes key skills such as illness and injury assessments, bandaging and splinting skills and emergency moves.

This program meets current American Heart Association (AHA) and International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) guidelines on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiac Care. It is an instructor-led program featuring skills demonstrations, both in video and in person, and skill practice with manikins.

Knowledge Development
Participants in the BLSFA course will learn the following:
 
  • List the four links of the "chain of survival."
  • Protect yourself against disease transmission and danger.
  • Check responsiveness.
  • Check for normal breathing.
  • Perform chest compressions and rescue breathing — CPR.
  • Use an AED.
  • Provide care for choking.
  • Place an unconscious person in the recovery position.
  • Provide care for external bleeding.
  • Provide care for person in shock.
  • Recognize health problems that are not life threatening.
  • Evaluate patient condition, and perform effective, correct first aid.
  • Evaluate when it is necessary to activate EMS.
  • Perform injury and illness assessments.
  • Splint a dislocated limb.
  • Secure the wound, and bandage using the correct techniques.
  • Move an injured person.

  • Skills Development
    At the end of this program, you will be able to perform BLS by
     
  • performing a scene safety assessment
  • performing one-rescuer CPR on a nonbreathing person
  • utilizing an AED
  • placing an unconscious patient in the recovery position
  • providing assistance to a choking adult
  • providing care for external bleeding
  • providing care for shock
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  • At the end of this program, you will be able to perform first aid by
     
  • performing injury and illness assessments
  • splinting a dislocated limb
  • securing a wound and bandaging using correct techniques
  • moving an injured person

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