Pulse Point Canada

Comprehensive first aid and CPR skills for professional first responders or those training to become first responders. Course teaches the patient assessment model, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, hemorrhage control, and care for a variety of acute and chronic conditions. Participants will be engaged in dynamic training techniques including video, media presentations, skills demonstrations, practice sessions, discussions and scenarios based on real-life situations.

 Audience

• Professionals in a fire service, rescue team, workplace response team, sports-medicine professionals, lifeguards and ski patrol.

 Duration

• 40 hours
• 20 hours (Recertification)

 Prerequisites

• None

Course Content

• The Professional Responder
• Responding to the call
• Infection prevention and control
• Anatomy and physiology
• Assessment
• Airway management and respiratory emergencies
• Circulatory emergencies
• Shock
• Hemorrhage and soft tissue trauma
• Musculoskeletal injuries
• Chest, abdominal and pelvic injuries
• Head and spinal injuries
• Acute and chronic illnesses
• Poisoning
• Environmental illnesses
• Pregnancy, labour and delivery
• Special populations
• Crisis intervention
• Reaching, lifting and extricating patients
• Multiple-casualty incidents

*Includes any other content required by specific legislation

Completion Requirements

• Successfully demonstrate the required skills
• Minimum 75% mark for written, closed book, knowledge evaluation
• Successfully complete minimum of one practical scenario
• Attend and participate in 100% of the course

Certification

• 3-year certification in First Responder (digital certificate issued upon successful completion)
• 1-year certification in Basic Life Support (digital certificate issued upon successful completion)

The certification period for most Canadian Red Cross courses is three years. Participants are encouraged to attend courses more frequently to assist with skill retention and confidence level when providing first aid. Some workplaces, employers and organizations may require their members/employees to attend first aid courses more frequently than the three-year period.

Participant Materials

• Canadian Red Cross Emergency Care for Professional Responders Reference Text
• Canadian Red Cross Emergency Care for Professional Responders Workbook 

Our classroom is equipped with all the necessary tools for you to be successful in the course. A digital copy of the textbook will be sent to you along with a host of documents to support your learning. Upon receipt, please feel free to start reviewing the Emergency Care for Professional Responders Textbook (PDF), and the Workbook for your course level. The Workbook is designed to be used as a study guide. We suggest that you start it prior too the course and complete it as we progress through the course, you WILL be required to submit it upon course completion.

We highly recommend that students purchase a copy of the Printed Textbook and a Professional Responder Student Kit. You are then free to use your textbook to take notes in and use you own equipment.