(Casualty Room) TARGET AUDIENCE:
This advanced program is designed for participants wishing to gain a Certificate III in Occupational Emergency Care equipping them with advanced skills and knowledge. The course is especially suited for first responders, mine rescue, firefighters, road rescue, remote resort dive & tour operations, security
personnel and those tasked with managing a Casualty Room.

PREREQUISITES:
Workplace Emergency Care
(Senior First Aid) or equivalent

COMPETENCIES GAINED

	Assess the situation, provide basic care, manage life threatening emergencies (Life Support/CPR)
	Utilise management skills to prioritise emergency action and manage road accidents.
	Identify and manage acute illness.
	Prevent, identify, manage burns and exposure toextreme temperatures.
	Identify, manage bleeding, wounds, eye injuries.
	Identify, manage bites, stings and poisoning.
	Identify, manage bone, joint, chest, abdominal injuries.
	Perform the role of emergency care personnel within legal and legislative requirements
	Apply procedures for injury prevention
	Apply principles of emergency care to infection control
	Select and operate specialist emergency care equipment (Pain management, defibrillation, spinal immobilisation equipment)
	Use ancillary resuscitation equipment safely and effectively
	Manage safe and effective lifting and moving of casualties
	Identify, manage and prevent poisoning and chemical spills in the workplace.
	Select and co-ordinate Emergency services assistance
	Manage a casualty in an Isolated Area
	Manage a workplace casualty room
	Electives (see information booklet)

COURSE CONTENT

	Primary Assessments (Basic Life Support / Resuscitation)
	Emergency Action and Road Accidents
	Acute Illness
	Burns & Extremes of Temperature
	Bleeding, Wounds and Eye Injuries
	Bites, Stings and Poisoning
	Bone, Joint, Chest, Pelvic & Abdominal Injuries
	Injury Prevention
	Legal and Legislative Responsibilities
	Emergency Services Assistance
	Poisoning and Chemical Spills
	Infection Control
	Moving & Lifting Patients and Equipment
	Advanced Resuscitation
	Hypoxia
	Bag Valve Mask Resuscitators
	Manually Triggered Ventilators
	Auto Ventilators
	Oropharyngeal Airways
	Suction Equipment
	Cardiac Defibrillation (Automated External Defibrillation)
	Isolated Area Emergency Care (Drug Administration)
	Pain Management (Inhaled Analgesia)
	Spinal Immobilisation
	Electives

DURATION: 5 days full time (plus precourse study)


COST: includes: Manuals, Certificate, CPR Cards, Workbooks.