Introduction to Red Cross (Chapter 1)

Responding to Emergencies (Chapter 2)

  • How to prepare for emergencies

  • Legal issues to consider

  • First aid in the workplace

  • How to protect yourself and others

  • How to communicate and document

  • Rules for transporting an ill/injured person

Check, Call, Care (Chapter 3)

  • How to approach a scene and check a person for illness or injury

  • How to recognize an emergency and when to call 911

  • How to appropriately care for a person with an illness or injury

  • Dealing with shock

  • Rules for giving medication

Choking (Chapter 4)

  • What to do if you or someone near you is choking

Circulation Emergencies (Chapter 5)

  • Covers heart attack, stroke, and life threatening bleeding

  • Practice how to use a tourniquet

CPR & AED (Chapter 6)

  • How to perform CPR and use an AED on an adult, child, and infant

Additional Topic

  • Dealing with opioid poisoning

CPR/AED C Certification

Secondary Survey (Chapter 2)

  • Check SAMPLE, vital signs, head-to-toe exam

Bone, Muscle, and Joint Injuries (Chapter 10)

  • How to identify bone, muscle, and joint injuries

  • Applying different types of splints

Sudden Medical Emergencies (Chapter 11)

  • Covers fainting, diabetes, and seizures

  • How to recognize and respond to a mental health emergency

Environmental Illness (Chapter 12)

  • Prevention and treatment of heat-related illnesses, such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke

  • Prevention and treatment of cold-related illnesses, such as frostbite and hypothermia

Poisons (Chapter 13)

  • Identifying hazardous materials

  • Treating swallowed, inhaled, absorbed, and injected poisons

  • Considerations for animal and insect bites and stings

Additional Topics

  • Learn proper body mechanics

  • Ways to move an ill/injured person

  • How to triage multiple ill/injured persons

Standard First Aid C Certification

Breathing Emergencies (Chapter 7)

  • Covers Asthma, COPD, and Anaphylaxis

Wound Care (Chapter 8)

  • Learn about dressings and bandages

  • Wound and infection recognition and care

  • Recognize and treat burns

  • Safety Data Sheets

  • How to treat eye, ear, nose, and mouth injuries

  • How to treat chest and abdominal injuries

  • How to treat amputation, impaled, and crush injuries

Head, Neck, and Spinal Injuries (Chapter 9)

  • How to approach a person with a suspected spinal injury

  • Providing care and exceptions for moving the person

  • Recognizing concussions

Emergency First Aid C Certification