FIRST PERSON ON SCENE INTERMEDIATE

FIRST PERSON ON SCENE INTERMEDIATE
Qualification:

Level 3 Award in the First Person on Scene Intermediate including D13 Enhanced FPOS Intermediate Skills – Regulated RQF award endorsed by the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care of Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh

Validity:

3 years

Course Description:

This course aims to provide knowledge and life savings skills to assess, manage and treat casualties in a trauma and/or medical emergency and to stabilise them for handover to the ambulance services or next echelon of pre-hospital care provider once they arrive on scene.

Duration:

5 days

Location:

GMD Training Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

Prerequisites:

Medically fit for sea

Learning Outcomes:
  • Understand the role and responsibilities of the first person on scene during an emergency incident
  • Understand the principles of scene management including triage in prehospital care settings
  • Know the principles required for effective and safe casualty assessment in the prehospital care setting
  • Be able to assess an incident for dangers and respond appropriately
  • Be able to assess a casualty’s levels of consciousness
  • Be able to recognise and manage a casualty with cardio dysfunction
  • Be able to recognise and manage a casualty with respiratory distress
  • Be able to recognise and manage a casualty with catastrophic haemorrhage
  • Be able to assess and manage a casualty with compromised airway
  • Be able to assess and manage suspected spinal injuries
  • Be able to assess casualty’s circulation and manage shock
  • Be able to assess a casualty’s level of disability
  • Be able to assess and manage thermal and chemical injuries
  • Be able to assess and manage ballistic and blast injuries
  • Know the principles of exposing the casualty for further assessment and act upon environmental considerations
  • Know how to recognise and manage a range of medical emergencies in the pre-hospital care setting including allergies and poisoning
  • Know how to recognise and manage a range of trauma related emergencies in the prehospital care setting including skeletal, thermal, ballistic and blast injuries
  • Understand the recognition features of red flag sepsis in the pre-hospital care setting
  • Know how to manage emergency care equipment to assist the health care professionals
  • Be able to manage a paediatric patient who is not breathing normally
  • Know how to safeguard against injuries when moving and handling a casualty
  • Know how to package a casualty for extrication and extraction