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First Aid Courses

One of our specialties, we offer First Aid training at various levels to suit a wide range of learners.

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Delivery Methods

First Aid courses are available through First Response Training as classroom-based courses or webinars.

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Medical Emergencies for Dental Practices Level 3

The Medical Emergencies for Dental Practices Level 3 course aims to equip learners with the necessary knowledge and skills to deliver appropriate emergency first aid to patients and staff within dental practices. The course is designed to help learners understand how to respond to medical emergencies such as heart attacks, strokes, and seizures, as well as how to manage dental-specific emergencies such as choking and allergic reactions. The course takes 6 hours to complete and is taught in person by a trainer. Successful candidates will receive a certificate that is valid for 3 years.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including the use of the AED and Oxygen Therapy
  • Explain the management of adult choking
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Understand how to recognise and treat bleeding and shock
  • Understand how to recognise and treat anaphylactic shock
  • Explain the treatment of common medical emergencies, such as chest pain, airway and breathing problems, seizures, fainting and blood sugar emergencies

First Aid Courses

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including the use of the AED
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Explain the management of adult choking
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate how to recognise and treat bleeding and shock
  • Demonstrate how to apply an arm and elevation sling

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate how to do a primary survey
  • Demonstrate putting someone into the recovery position

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Dealing with an emergency
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Explain the management of adult choking
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Describe how to recognise and treat bleeding and shock
  • Explain the treatment of heart attack, seizures and burns and scalds

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Explain the management of adult choking, shock, sepsis and stroke
  • Describe how to deal with heart attack, wounds and bleeding
  • Explain the treatment of seizures and burns

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Explain the management of adult choking
  • Describe how to recognise and treat bleeding and shock
  • Explain the treatment of minor and major injuries

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • To provide an awareness of some main allergies
  • To explain anaphylaxis and identify the body systems that it affects
  • To describe how to recognise anaphylaxis, and identify the symptoms
  • To explain the causes of anaphylaxis
  • To explain the first aid treatment for anaphylaxis

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Manage an unresponsive casualty who is not breathing
  • Understand how the heart works
  • Perform CPR and use an AED effectively and safely
  • Manage the aftermath including dealing with the post-incident procedures for the AED and managing a successful resuscitation

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Understand the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Demonstrate adult choking techniques

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Understand the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Demonstrate adult choking techniques
  • Understand anaphylaxis by knowing triggers, symptoms and treatment

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the role and responsibilities of a paediatric first aider
  • Demonstrate the management of an unresponsive infant and child
  • Demonstrate paediatric resuscitation
  • Demonstrate the management of a child or infant who is choking
  • Explain airway and breathing difficulties
  • Provide an understanding of anaphylaxis
  • Explain the treatment for burns and scalds, and wounds and bleeding
  • Provide information regarding injuries to bones, muscles and joints, and also,  the management of seizures in children, adults or infants
  • List some other  conditions associated with infants and children and their treatment

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Demonstrate adult choking techniques
  • Open recap questions on 1st aid subjects

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Explain the management of adult choking
  • Describe how to recognise and treat bleeding and burns
  • Explain the treatment of burns

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain and demonstrate resuscitation techniques for adults, children and infants
  • List the causes of unresponsiveness
  • Demonstrate the management of unresponsiveness for adults, children and infants
  • Demonstrate how to manage choking in adults, children and infants

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate adult, child and infant resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Explain the management of adult, child and infant choking
  • Describe how to recognise and treat bleeding and shock
  • Explain the treatment of minor and major injuries
  • Understand other  conditions associated with infants and children and their treatment

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Explain the management of adult choking, shock, sepsis and stroke
  • Describe how deal with heart attack, wounds and bleeding
  • Explain the treatment of seizures and burns

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Explain the management of adult choking, shock, sepsis and stroke
  • Describe how to deal with heart attack, wounds and bleeding
  • Explain the treatment of seizures and burns
  • Explain the management of a crush injury
  • Explain the treatment of hypothermia

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Explain the management of adult choking, shock, sepsis and stroke
  • Describe how deal with heart attack, wounds and bleeding
  • Explain the treatment of seizures and burns
  • Understand the implications of the over consumption of alcohol and first aid actions

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Explain the management of adult choking, shock, sepsis and stroke
  • Describe how deal with heart attack, wounds and bleeding
  • Explain the treatment of seizures and burns
  • Explain the treatment for electric shock and how it links to all areas covered on the course

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Explain the management of adult choking, shock, sepsis and stroke
  • Describe how to deal with heart attack, wounds and bleeding
  • Explain the treatment of seizures and burns
  • Suicide awareness including ligature

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe actions in an emergency situation
  • Demonstrate the management of an unresponsive adult, infant and child
  • Demonstrate adult and paediatric resuscitation
  • Demonstrate the management of an adult, child or infant who is choking
  • Explain the treatment for hypovolaemic shock
  • Demonstrate the treatment of wounds and bleeding
  • Explain the treatment for burns and scalds
  • Explain the management of seizures in children, adults or infants

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Explain the management of adult choking
  • Describe how to recognise and treat bleeding and shock
  • Explain the treatment of minor and major injuries

Classroom or blended training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Explain the management of adult choking
  • Describe how to recognise and treat bleeding and shock
  • Explain the treatment of minor and major injuries
  • Understand the implications of the over consumption of alcohol and first aid actions

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Explain the management of adult choking
  • Describe how to recognise and treat bleeding and shock
  • Explain the treatment of minor and major injuries

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Explain the management of adult choking
  • Describe how to recognise and treat bleeding and shock
  • Explain the treatment of minor and major injuries

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED
  • Explain the management of adult choking
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Describe how to recognise and treat bleeding and shock
  • Explain the treatment of heart attack, seizures, burns, scalds and other injuries

eLearning course

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand common causes of cardiac arrest
  • Understand means of preventing cardiac arrest
  • Understand the ABCDE approach to cardiac arrest
  • Demonstrate a range of airway management and ventilation techniques
  • Demonstrate safe usage and knowledge of defibrillation

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe your actions in an emergency
  • Demonstrate the management of the unresponsive casualty
  • Demonstrate adult resuscitation including use of the AED and Oxygen Therapy
  • Explain the management of adult choking
  • Describe how to recognize and treat bleeding and shock
  • Explain the treatment of chest pain, airway and breathing problems, fainting and blood sugar emergencies

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the role and responsibilities of a paediatric first aider
  • Demonstrate the management of an unresponsive infant and child
  • Demonstrate paediatric resuscitation
  • Demonstrate the management of a child or infant who is choking
  • Explain airway and breathing difficulties
  • Provide an understanding of anaphylaxis
  • Explain the treatment for burns and scalds, and wounds and bleeding
  • Provide information regarding injuries to bones, muscles and joints, and also,  the management of seizures in children, adults or infants
  • List some other  conditions associated with infants and children and their treatment

Classroom training