REC (L5) Travel & Expedition First Aid

I'd been planning on running this course at Llangasty Village Hall on July 24th/25th but see that I only have two booking forms. If anyone is interested then please feel free to contact me or simply send me a booking form by midday on Monday 12th July. I'm happy to reschedule this course and run my last such course in March 2022.

A two day course (16 hours). 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:

• Development of skills gained at emergency level

• In-depth review of emergency care topics

• Advanced techniques • skills • development

• Review of special interest topics by the candidates

Course content:
First aid training with the REC scheme is easy and fun. The course is progressive by building on each session, introducing new scenarios to test all techniques for:

• Environment: hazards • cold • heat • chemicals • poisons • light • toxic substances

• Escort: vital signs • psychological • monitoring • fluids • stretcher • splints • pain control
• Illness: chest pain • stroke • asthma • epilepsy • diabetes • poisons •  hyperventilation • mental
• Scenarios: triage • incident management • emergency plans • action cards
• Travel: dislocations • wound management • tropical diseases • gastric  illnesses • high altitude (incl. PAC)

The Assessment:
Travel & Expedition First Aid is assessed by observation of practical skills throughout the course and written assignments.​