The Fun Part

The fun part about Emergency First Response training is learning serious medical emergency response skills in an upbeat, positive environment. You gain the confidence that you are prepared to help in an emergency.

What You Learn in the EFR Primary and Secondary Care Courses

•     BLS (Basic Life Support) CPR and rescue breathing at the layperson level
•     AED (automated external defibrillator) use (optional)
•     Preventing and caring for shock
•     Spinal injury management
•     Use of barriers to reduce disease transmission risk
•     Basic first aid and first aid kit considerations

Prerequisites

To enroll in Emergency First Response courses, you must:

•     Care about other people and want to be able to assist them in a medical emergency

 
Logistics & Cost

Logistics: The course takes place in a classroom and lasts up to a full day. The course includes hands-on training with an Automated External Defibrilator (AED).

Cost:

•     Initial: £110  includes learning materials and bandage pack
•     Refresher: £75 includes bandage pck (excludes manual)
•     Integrated with Rescue Diver course: £100 includes learning materials and bandage pack

 
Your Next Adventure

Beside the Primary and Secondary Care Courses, Emergency First Response offers Care for Children and other emergency training programs.

After completing Primary and Secondary Care, take the PADI Rescue Diver course and the PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider course Together, these three courses round out your ability to handle scuba diver emergencies.

For more information about this or other PADI courses have a chat with one of the Dive Force Instructors.

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