Rescue Emergency Care Level 5 - Expedition

REC Emergency Care Series

Course Summary

Provisional Date – Course is conditional on Covid Guidelines on Training and Social Distancing

The travel and expedition first aid course is designed to introduce a systematic way of advanced first aid for managing casualties. Topic learning and practicals intermixed with scenarios of real situations. The course includes:

• Two days (16 hours)
• Development of skills from Advanced level (L4)
• In-depth review of emergency care topics
• Advanced techniques, skills and development
• Review of special interest topics

Expedition First Aider

• will be able to take control of an incident and direct basic first aiders
• is able to deal with more complex problems in remote locations

Course content

• environment – hazards, cold, heat, chemicals, poisons, light, toxic substances
• escort skills – vital signs, psychological trauma, monitoring, stretcher, splints, pain control
• illness – chest pain, asthma, epilepsy, diabetes, poisons, hyperventilation, mental disorders
• scenarios – triage, incident management, emergency plans, action cards
• expedition – dislocations, wound management, tropical diseases, gastric illnesses, altitude sickness.