First Aid Diploma From UGC Approved Government University

Syllabus:

• Unit I: First aid basics: first aid, importance of first aid, first aider, laws of first aid, contents of an ideal first aid kit, dealing with an emergency.
• Unit II Emergency response: CPR, steps for performing CPR,CPR for newborns and infants, recovery position, first aid in drowning, fractures of bones, causes and types of fractures, dislocation.
• Unit III First aid in burns: Types of burns, danger of burns, first aid in dry burns and scalds, electrical burns, chemical burns, sunburn, heatstroke.
• Unit IV First aid in wounds and injuries: types of wounds- small cuts and abrasions, Head injury- nose bleed, bleeding gums, bleeding from varicose veins, Shocks- causes of shock and its first aid.
• Unit V First aid in poisoning: poisoning by swallowing, gases, injections, skin absorption, Animal bites, snake bites and insect stings.
• Unit VI First aid in foreign objects entering the sense organs: foreign body in the eye, ear, nose, skin, swallowing of foreign objects.

Learning Outcomes

At the completion of this course, the student should be able to :

• Administering basic life support skills including cardiopulmonary resuscitaon
• Providing first aid of simple and mulple system trauma such as
• Controlling hemorrhage
• Managing Burns and wounds
• Manually stabilizing injured extremies
• Idenfying signs of Stroke and heart aack and safe transfer aer first aid without delay in transfer.
• Manage general medical complaints seizures and animal bites (snake /dog bite)