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RYA First Aid Course
Price: £55
Duration: One Day
Previous Experience: None Required
Minimum Age: 14+(juniors must be
accompanied by a responsible adult)
Course Aim: To provide crew with essential
life-saving skills
Course Content: This course is
designed to provide a working knowledge of First Aid for Skippers and
crew of small craft operating within 60 miles from safe haven. Upon
successful completion of the course your certificate will be valid for 3
years.
- Principles of First Aid, assessment
and immediate actions to be taken
- Principles of resuscitation, (inc.
drowning and near drowning)
- How to give effective CPR (now
known as Basic Life Support)
- Prevention, recognition of
Hypothermia (and Hyperthermia)
- Recognition and treatment of Shock
- Control of Bleeding (internal and
external)
- Recognition and treatment of
Fractures
- Management of casualties inc.
Helicopter Evacuation
- Recognition of underlying
conditions
- Awareness and use of Category
C Drugs (Offshore candidates only).
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