Provide First Aid in Remote or Isolated Site

HLTAID013 Provide first aid in remote settings course is part of the fully accredited first aid training that gives you the skills and knowledge required to provide first aid response and emergency life support to a casualty in a remote and/or isolated situation. The unit applies to people who may be required to prepare for and provide a first aid response in locations beyond the reach of timely medical assistance

You will be trained on:
State/Territory regulations, first aid codes of practice and workplace procedures:

• ARC Guidelines relevant to provision of CPR and first aid
• Safe work practices to minimise risks and potential hazards
• Infection control principles and procedures, including use of standard precautions
• Requirements for currency of skill and knowledge
• Legal, workplace and community considerations including:
• Awareness of potential need for stress-management techniques and available support following an emergency situation
• Duty of care requirements
• Respectful behaviour towards a casualty
• Own skills and limitations
• Consent
• Privacy and confidentiality requirements
• Importance of debriefing
• Considerations when providing first aid, including:
• Airway obstruction due to body position
• Appropriate duration and cessation of CPR
• Appropriate use of an AED
• Chain of survival
• Standard precautions
• How to conduct a visual and verbal secondary survey assessment
• Assessment and interpretation of vital signs, including respirations, temperature and pulse
• Principles and procedures for first aid management of the following scenarios, contextualised to the candidate’s remote and/or isolated situation:
• Abdominal injuries
• Allergic reaction
• Anaphylaxis
• Basic care of a wound
• Bleeding control
• Burns
• Cardiac conditions, including chest pain
• Choking and airway obstruction
• Crush injuries
• Diabetes
• Dislocations
• Drowning
• Envenomation
• Environmental impact, including hypothermia, hyperthermia, dehydration and heat stroke
• Eye and ear injuries
• Febrile convulsions
• Fractures
• Head, neck and spinal injuries
• Minor skin injuries
• Needle stick injuries
• Poisoning and toxic substances
• Respiratory distress, including asthma
• Seizures, including epilepsy
• Shock
• Soft tissue injuries, including sprains and strains
• Stroke
• Unconsciousness
• Remote considerations in the provision of first aid, including:
• Typical hazards and strategies for preparing supplies to address contingencies
• Management options relations to transporting casualty, including aero-medical evacuation
• How to identify and prepare areas for safe evacuation, including aero-medical evacuation
• How and when to access emergency response services
• Communication systems, equipment and methods available in remote situations
• Priorities of management in first aid when dealing with life-threatening conditions
• Specific considerations contextualised to alpine, desert, marine, rural/remote settings and tropical environments.
• Basic anatomy and physiology relating to:
• How to recognise a person is not breathing normally
• Chest
• Response/consciousness
• Upper airway and effect of positional change