Target group

First aid providers in companies, sports coaches, kindergarten and childcare workers, youth workers, camp counsellors and others who need refresher first aid training every 3 years. All other interested individuals are also welcome.

Objectives

The aim of the refresher training is to review and deepen the knowledge and skills acquired in the training course.

Topics covered

• Assessment of an accident situation, actions in an accident (including managing panic) and calling for emergency assistance, assessing the victim’s condition (including risks associated with changing the victim’s position), the nature and general principles of first aid, specific considerations for providing assistance outdoors, and preventing further health damage;
• Life-threatening conditions, recognising them, and necessary actions (including in cases of heart attack, stroke and lung injury);
• First aid in cases of unconsciousness – ensuring an open airway, preventing brain damage due to oxygen deficiency, removing foreign objects from the airways, resuscitation (including the use of an AED device);
• First aid for injuries – superficial and deep injuries to the body, internal and external bleeding, techniques for stopping bleeding, techniques and rules for dressing wounds, risks associated with fractures, rules for splinting and related risks, joint injuries (including dislocations and sprains), contusions and crush injuries to various body parts, and eye injuries;
• First aid in cases of drowning, poisoning, corrosive injury, burns, frostbite and electric shock;
• The nature of medical shock and assisting a victim in shock;
• First aid for sudden illnesses (e.g., seizures, diabetic coma, anaphylactic shock, fainting, asthma attacks, abdominal pain);
• Selection and use of first aid supplies in the workplace.