This fundamental course prepares you to provide proper care for life-threatening illnesses or injuries until professional emergency medical care is available.

This course is approved by the U.S. Coast Guard as meeting the CPR and first aid requirements for captain and mate licenses.

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What You Will Learn

The life-support skills taught in this course include one-person CPR, use of automatic external defibrillators, bleeding management, assisting a choking victim and responding to a person in shock. The first aid skills taught include conducting secondary assessments, splinting and responding to medical emergencies.

You will learn about:

• Primary & Secondary Assessments
• Signs & symptoms of common medical emergencies
• Stroke Assessment

You will develop the following skills:

• Initial and secondary assessments
• Recovery position technique
• CPR techniques
• Automated external defibrillator (AED) use
• Obstructed airway management
• Control of external bleeding
• Bandaging, wound management and splinting
• Shock management

Price: $189.00

Aquanautics will be offering this class once a month.  Minimum of three students for class to start.  Price includes all student academic materials.  You can register online, on the phone or in person.  Please contact us if you have any questions.