Overview:
This course provides essential basic knowledge and skills in correct emergency first aid and medical emergencies for infants and children. It is suitable for any person such as parents, teachers, foster carers, early years carers, childminders, etc. who have contact with children and infants.

Entry requirements:
None

Course includes:
Care of the unconscious casualty, basic life support, bleeding, choking, shock, head injury, recognition of illness in children, asthma, seizures and febrile convulsions, paediatric medical emergencies including meningitis, croup, sickle-cell anaemia.