Bleed Response & Defibrillation
Key Information
Duration: 1/2 Day (4 Hours)
Maximum Attendees: 15
Training available at your own workplace.
Save lives with your own hands - learn to stop bleeding and use defibrillators.
In the "Bleed Response & Defibrillation" course, students will gain invaluable knowledge and practical skills to help save lives in emergency situations.
Participants will learn to recognise different types of bleeding, including life-threatening arterial bleeding, and understand the importance of quick action. The course will cover various techniques to control bleeding and the use of emergency bandages and tourniquets. Students will also learn about the signs and symptoms of hypovolemic shock, a potentially fatal condition caused by rapid blood loss.
Additionally, the course will cover the crucial role of early defibrillation in saving lives during cardiac emergencies.
By the end of the course, participants will be empowered with the knowledge and confidence to act swiftly and make a real difference in life-threatening situations.
Please bring along your ID - We need to verify the identity of students in attendance, please bring ID with you on the day of training.
Key Learning Outcomes
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Learn to recognise the different types of bleeding
- Identifying life-threatening arterial bleeding
- The importance of quick action
- Direct pressure techniques on wounds
- Wound packing, bandages and tourniquets
- Understand the signs and symptoms of hypovolemic shock
- Early defibrillation
- Defibrillation use
Entry Criteria:
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Students must be able to kneel on the floor to perform first aid functions and will require use of both hands/arms. If you have students with physical limitations, please contact us to discuss.
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All students are required to have a level of written and oral English equivalent to NCEA level 1 (year 11) or IELTS 5.5 or higher, to be eligible to attend our courses. The person responsible for making bookings or authorising attendance on the course must agree to these Terms and Conditions prior to acceptance of their student(s) onto the course. Where a student does not meet our English language requirement a reader/writer must be supplied by the student or the person responsible for authorising the student’s attendance. The reader/writer cannot be another student attending the same course.
