The FA Emergency Aid Certificate is delivered as an integral part of all FA Level 1 Certificate in Coaching Football courses and is also delivered as a FREESTANDING workshop.
Please CLICK on the HFA Coach Education Programme 2007 and FORTHCOMING Freestanding FA Emergency Aid Courses links below right for course details, dates and application forms.
Please contact Paul Carpenter / Val Lambert on 01432 342179 or email paul.carpenter@herefordshirefa.com for further details.
FA Emergency Aid Certificate Course Objectives:
- Preserve Life
- Limit Effects
- Promote Recovery
Course Syllabus:
- Approach to an incident (danger, help, bystanders)
- Assessment of Priorities (ABC)
- Checking responsiveness – shake and shout
- Opening the airway – chin lift/head tilt
- Checking breathing – look/listen/feel
- Checking the pulse (carotid)
- Recovery position (for breathing casualty)
- Breathing for the casualty (mouth to mouth)
- Chest Compressions
- Combined heart-lung resuscitation
- Control of bleeding (press and raise)
- Dressing of wounds
- Minimising shock
- Choking
- Heart Attacks