Childcare CPR & First Aid Certification (AHA Pediatric CPR AED)
This course page keeps class dates and booking first while describing the practical emergency recognition skills covered in CPR, AED, and first aid training.
Current Guideline Focus
- Choking response follows the current pattern: adults and children receive 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts; infants receive 5 back blows and 5 chest thrusts.
- Opioid emergency response includes recognizing respiratory arrest, activating EMS, using naloxone when available, and giving CPR with breaths when breathing is absent or abnormal. Hands-only CPR is not always enough in opioid emergencies.
- Stroke recognition uses FAST and urgent EMS activation, and stroke should not be framed as something that only affects older adults.
- Seizure response includes protecting from injury, not restraining the person, placing nothing in the mouth, and calling EMS for prolonged, repeated, first-time, injured, breathing-compromised, water-related, pregnant, diabetic, or febrile seizure concerns.
- Asthma support includes helping with the person's prescribed bronchodilator, using a spacer when available, and understanding that an improvised spacer may help when a standard spacer is not available.
- Environmental and outdoor first aid includes rapid cooling for severe heat illness, ice water immersion when available, safe rewarming for cold exposure, and avoiding harmful warming methods.
- Additional practical topics can include ticks, stings, burns, eye injuries, poison ivy/oak exposure, and pulse oximetry limitations.