CPR / AED ESSENTIALS

Cardiac arrest is unfortunately fairly common, which is why there are defibrillators installed in many public areas such as shopping centres, busy streets and educational institutions.

Various factors can contribute to cardiac arrest, not just a heart attack, including:

• cardiomyopathy and some inherited heart conditions
• congenital heart disease
• heart valve disease
• acute myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle)

External causes include:

• electrocution
• drug overdose
• severe haemorrhage (known as hypovolaemic shock) – losing a large amount of blood
• hypoxia - due to a severe drop in oxygen levels

An automated external defibrillator (AED) is an intelligent but user-friendly machine that allows someone to help a person experiencing sudden cardiac arrest. When the heart goes into cardiac arrest, it loses its rhythm and begins to fibrillate, quivering irregularly. With time critical in the survival outcome for that person, the machine analyses heart rhythm to deliver an electric shock, or defibrillation, to help the heart re-establish an effective rhythm and drastically increase their chance of survival while waiting for emergency services to take over.

This certification delivers current defibrillator training to equip learners with the skills, knowledge and confidence to help someone in cardiac arrest in the workplace.

Practical and theory-based exercises and tutorials take learners through all the processes and procedures vital to using an AED correctly and administering basic life support.

The course reflects national standards and industry best practices. In addition, choose to learn with Totally Training, and learners will benefit from our custom-built training facilities and customer-first approach.
 

Our occupationally experienced and qualified tutors coach learners on this course, completing the session with a practical assessment using an AED. They must pass the assessment to receive a CPR / AED certificate, valid for three years.

This course teaches learners all the essentials of using an AED, helping someone unresponsive, breathing and not breathing. In addition, learners will review legal requirements, ensure safety compliance, and understand procedures and appropriate documentation and classifications.

The course content includes:

• Personal safety, assessing the incident and patient priorities: DR, ABC check and sending for help - danger, response, airway, breathing, circulation
• How to deal with an unconscious casualty
• How to recognise a casualty who is not breathing normally
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
• Defibrillation (recognition of heart rhythms)
• CPR and use of AED on a casualty (practical simulation)
• General guidelines for using a defibrillator
• Recording of information (sample report form)
• Contacting and handing over to the emergency services
• Safety considerations

At the end of the training, successful learners will have the knowledge, skill and confidence to administer AED aid to someone suffering from cardiac arrest and have a basic understanding and application of life support. 

Upon completion, they will receive a CPR / AED certificate, valid for three years from the issue date.

The AED defibrillator training course is suitable for first aid qualified and non qualified learners age 16+ requiring training to use an AED machine safely. 

The half-day CPR / AED Defibrillator and Life Support training course certifies learners as competent to use an AED Defibrillator machine.

At Totally Training, quality and support to our learners is priority. Totally Training provide a dedicated service to Our Clients.

Totally Training are a leading provider of health, safety, environmental and technical theory and practical training and assessment services, covering a wide range of industry sectors, working with 100s of organisations to provide quality written and delivered courses. 

Totally Training Instructors and Assessors are fully qualified and occupationally experienced and competent from industry-specific backgrounds to deliver Our qualifications, traveling nationwide to provide necessary support at all times.

Our occupationally experienced First Aid educators have successfully trained over 10,000 Learners across the First Aid and Wellbeing training category. Delivering courses at our nationwide, industry-leading and accredited training centres and offering the very best of training standards and quality assurance. 

We have hundreds of public dates and locations nationally for CPR / AED Training, or can offer dedicated training for specific requirements such as on-site groups. Whatever you need, our training services help bring together the optimum mix of solutions to ensure you can apply the hierarchy of risk control most effectively. 

The course has physical elements as required to use an AED, so it is vital that learners attending can physically carry out the activities detailed in the AED course programme.

For training held at your location, please ensure that the classroom you make available has a power supply and is a suitable size for the number of learners attending. In addition, please ensure that the practical area has been risk-assessed, is free from harm, and is ideal for training. 

To learn more about this qualification, to book or for any queries, please contact a member of the team by phone at 07763 854 325 or email training@totally.training