EFR Care for Children - Paediatric First Aid
The Emergency First Response Care for Children course focuses on providing first aid for babies and children. You’ll learn child and infant CPR, how to use an AED safely in paediatric settings, and how to deal with the most common injuries and illnesses you might encounter at home, in childcare or in schools.
Who is this course for?
- Parents, grandparents and carers
- Nursery and school staff
- Childminders and after-school club leaders
- Sports coaches and instructors working with children
What you’ll learn
- Scene safety and assessing an unresponsive child or infant
- Child and infant CPR and safe AED use
- Paediatric choking
- Bleeding and shock in children
- Managing burns, scalds and head injuries
- Recognising and managing paediatric conditions such as fever, seizures, allergic reactions and breathing difficulties
- When and how to call 999 and what information to give
Course format
- Duration: 1 full day, or 2 x 3-hour sessions (e.g. evenings)
- Group size: Maximum 6 learners
- Location: Warrior Spirit Martial Arts, Anglesey, or your location.
- Certification: EFR Care for Children certificate
Price
- £150 per person
- £825 for a private group of up to 6 learners
About Emergency First Response (EFR)
Emergency First Response (EFR) is one of the world’s largest CPR, AED and first aid training organisations, with tens of thousands of instructors teaching in more than 180 countries. It is a corporate affiliate of PADI, the world’s leading diver training organisation, and has over four decades of experience in developing high-quality emergency care training materials and curricula.
EFR courses are based on internationally recognised medical guidelines for emergency care and follow the consensus recommendations of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) through bodies such as the European Resuscitation Council and the American Heart Association. Training programmes are updated whenever resuscitation guidelines are revised, so the CPR and first aid skills you learn reflect current, evidence-based best practice.
In the UK, the EFR First Aid at Work (Great Britain) programme is specifically designed to meet the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981, customised to Resuscitation Council UK basic life support protocols and nationally accepted first aid standards. This allows employers to use EFR training as part of their duty to provide “adequate and appropriate” first aid provision in the workplace under HSE guidance.
The skills taught in EFR programmes are the same core, evidence-based resuscitation and first aid techniques that underpin training for healthcare professionals and emergency responders, simplified and practised at a layperson level so that anyone can learn to provide effective help until the emergency services arrive.
