This course provides you with the knowledge and training to provide a first aid response to a casualty in a remote or isolated site over an extended period of time until medical assistance is provided, or evacuation occurs.

It gives you the skills to take control and provide immediate and extended help to a patient until the patient can be extricated.

You will learn how to deal with provide first aid in situations where immediate emergency service response or medical assistance is likely to be delayed. You will learn how to manage a cardiac arrest, do CPR at the correct rate, use the AED and treat a number of conditions including:

• allergic reactions
• basic care of a wound, including cleaning and dressing
• environmental impacts, including hypothermia, hyperthermia, dehydration, and heat stroke
• fractures, dislocations, sprains, and strains, using appropriate immobilisation techniques for remote situations and appropriate equipment improvisations
• respiratory distress, including asthma
• anaphylaxis
• nosebleed
• non-life-threatening bleeding
• life threatening bleeding requiring use of tourniquets and haemostatic dressings
• choking
• snake and spider bite
• fractures, sprains, and strains
• head, neck, and spinal injuries
• shock

This will ensure you can provide the patient with the best opportunity to survive when help is not readily available.

You will also participate in a post-incident debrief and provide verbal reports to the paramedics.

You can use these skills in your workplace, the home or in community settings as well as in locations beyond the reach of timely medical assistance.