Marine First Aid Level 4 (VTQ)
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Human anatomy and physiology for immediate emergency care
- Safety and Calling for Help
- What3Words - location app
- Marine band radios
- Marine VHF Radios
- Common Coastal Water Dangers
- Common Fresh Water Marine Dangers
- Emergency Flares
- LED Flares
- The Coastguard
- The Air Ambulance
- Personal Location Beacons
- Accident Prevention
- Boat Safety
- Calling for help
- Water safety tubes
- Types of Blankets
- Emergency response for hybrid and electric boats
- First Aid and Safety Equipment\
- Initial Assessment and Care
- Basic airway management in emergency care
- CPR
- AED
- Administration of oxygen therapy
- Drowning
- Choking
- Shock
- Bleeding
- Catastrophic Injury
- Injuries
- Hypothermia
- Illness
- FIrst Responder - Management of injuries
- Prioritising first aid
- Pelvic Injuries
- Spinal Injuries
- Rapid Extrication
- SAM Pelvic Sling
- Box Splints
- Spinal Injury
- Stabilising the spine
- Spinal Recovery Position
- Introduction to Spinal Boards
- The spinal board
- Using the Spinal Board
- The Scoop Stretcher
- Using the scoop stretcher
- Cervical collars
- Vertical C-Spine Immobilisation
- Joint examination
- Adult fractures
- Types of fracture
- First Responder - Management of trauma
- Elevated Slings
- Lower limb immobilisation
- Elevation Techniques
- Helmet Removal
- Different Types of Helmets
- The Carry Chair
- Applying Plasters
- Strains and Sprains and the RICE procedure
- Eye Injuries
- Electrical Injuries
- Foreign objects in the eye, ears or nose
- Nose bleeds
- Bites and stings
- Chest Injuries
- Foxseal chest seals
- Abdominal Injuries
- Treating Snake Bites
- Types of head injury and consciousness
- Dislocated Shoulders and Joints
- Other Types of Injury
- Dental Injuries
- First Responder - Management of medical conditions
- Asthma
- Asthma Spacers
- When an Asthma inhaler is not available
- Accuhaler®
- Heart Attack
- Warning signs of cardiac arrest and heart attack
- Heart Attack Position
- Aspirin and the Aspod
- Stable angina
- Hypertension
- Pulse Oximetry
- Epilepsy
- Epilepsy treatment
- Meningitis
- Diabetes
- Blood Sugar Testing
- Poisons and Food Poisoning
- Shock
- Near and secondary drowning
- Cold water shock
- Allergic Reactions and Anaphylaxis
- Course Summary
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If you're unable or unwilling to do breaths, you can do what's called continual chest compressions. So this is giving the compressions on the chest, but no breaths. Now, it's ideal if you can do the breaths and the compressions because you are getting fresh oxygenated air into the body. But if you are unwilling or unable to do that, then you can just do just compressions. So you go through the same cycle again. So to start with, we would check to see if they're breathing for up to 10 seconds, so that we know in that 10-second time whether they're breathing. Remember, be careful of any gasping to acknowledge is that are not real breathing. Once we have found out they're not breathing, then we can continue with the chest compressions. We do it exactly the same way, interlock your hands over the top of the chest up here, and then literally just push down in the same way as we did before. Rather than having to do 30 stopping for breaths, you just keep going. So just keep going on the cycle, or some people find it easier just to count up to 30 every time, just they go to 30 and then go back to the beginning just to try and get into the cycle of it. So just keep on going. Again, if you saw signs of life, you would stop, now you are doing this until the defibrillator arrives or you're too tired to continue, in which case, try and hand over to a second rescuer.
Continuous Chest Compressions Procedure
Overview
If unable or unwilling to perform rescue breaths during CPR, continuous chest compressions can be administered to maintain circulation.
Procedure
- Initial Assessment: Check for breathing for up to 10 seconds; beware of gasping which may not indicate normal breathing.
- Chest Compressions: Interlock hands over the chest and perform compressions at the same rate and depth as standard CPR.
- Continuous Cycle: Instead of alternating with rescue breaths, continue with uninterrupted compressions.
- Counting Method: Some prefer counting to 30 and then restarting to maintain consistency.
- Monitoring: Stop if signs of life appear or continue until an AED arrives or another rescuer takes over.
Handing Over
If fatigued, attempt to hand over CPR responsibilities to another trained individual to ensure continual care.