SHA HEART SAVER AND FIRST AID (HSFA) COURSE

Course Language: English

Course Language: EnglishThe participants will train how to demonstrate cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timel..

Course overview

The Saudi Heart Association Heart Saver First Aid/ AED course, a full day course (6 hours) incorporates the recent guidelines and updates.

It teaches and trains the participants how to recognize and treat a variety of emergencies such as fractures, wounds, External /Internal Bleeding, burns, scrapes, sudden illnesses, head, neck, back injuries, heat and cold emergencies and how to respond to breathing and cardi­ac emergencies for victims in different age groups.

Also, the participants will train how to demonstrate cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner.

Course Objectives

This course aims to provide the target participants the knowledge and skills as following:

• Understand the basic principles of heartsaver and first aid.
• Identify medical, traumatic and environmental emergencies requiring immediate first aid.
• Know how to demonstrate the basic first aid for medical, traumatic and environmental emer­gencies of all ages.
• Know how to demonstrate Advanced first aid for medical, traumatic and environmental emer­gencies of all ages.
• Know how to demonstrate basic Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Skills and using an AED safely.

Course Description

To help you achieve these objectives, the Saudi HSFA Provider Course includes

• Pre-course Textbook.
• Interactive Discussion.
• Hands on skills practice

Target Audience:

• Public and non health care proffisions 
• All Health Care Providers