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  • Doctor
  • Paramedic
  • Nurse
  • Emergency Care Assistant
  • Technician (EMT)
  • Patient Transport Services
  • Healthcare Assistant
  • First Aider
  • Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP)
  • Emergency Care Practitioner (ECP)
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  • This is for:

    Any individuals who have access and are expected to use an Automatic External Defibrillator either at work or recreation. If you have, or are considering, making an AED available to your staff or customers, this is an essential course.

  • Objectives:

    This course is designed to give the necessary basic life support skills including Resuscitation techniques to your students and to give a working knowledge of, and hands-on skills with, the AED.

  • Certification:

    After completing the assessment, learners will receive a Level 2 Award in Basic Life Support & Safe Use Of An Automated External Defibrillator Certificate.

Course Summary

Our automated external defibrillator (AED) training course allows candidates to learn the theory behind defibrillation and the practical element of using an AED during resuscitation. Our AED course can be combined with other, more advanced first aid courses such as emergency use of Oxygen and airway management. We also offer candidates on our First aid at work courses the opportunity to 'bolt-on' AED training to their first aid at work course, for only £62.50 (+vat) students who undertake this additional training receive an additional 'AED training' certificate.

This course runs regularly at our Chester training centre. Please contact us for more details: 01829 732 615

Syllabus

  • Introduction, registration welcome and domestics
  • Basic Life Support (Assessment of a casualty, Recovery techniques)
  • Circulatory system, Heart rhythms
  • The chain of survival
  • The role of the AED in Basic life support
  • The AED
  • What is it? What does it do?
  • The controls and procedure of use
  • How to connect to a casualty (demonstration, practice & assessment)
  • Use to defibrillate a casualty (demonstration, practice & assessment)
  • Safety & maintenance

Course dates

For all available dates please visit our Polaris Academy website at https://polarisacademy.co.uk/book/

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If you are interested on booking on this course please fill in this form and we will try and get back to you as soon as possible.