It is a legal requirement that employers provide First Aid courses to their workers in numbers in proportion to the number of employees and the degree of dangerous work involved.

The First Aid courses offered at the Buda Health Center will provide training in the following competencies:

• sudden death,
• provision of assistance,
• theory and practice of basic resuscitation,
• removal of aspirated foreign bodies.

We have probably all been in situations, following an accident or during an illness, when we were required to help but felt inadequate and uncertain of what to do, asking ourselves: What should I do in order to do good not damage? Fear and uncertainty often prevent us from helping, and yet, we all have the ability to learn this skill.

Our First Aid course offers helpful and practical advice on what to do in serious, life threatening situations, showing how to recognize serious conditions and the first steps to be taken. The basic resuscitation techniques are taught on special dolls. We cover the rules on dialing ambulance units, the use of semi-automatic defibrillators and what to do in cases of swallowing wrong. Sudden death survival is increased many fold with this knowledge and these techniques.

Goals:

• to understand the causes and significance of sudden death,
• to learn about the algorithm of first aid in the event of sudden death or other life-threatening situations,
• to emphasize the importance of positive thinking while assisting,
• to practice life-saving techniques.

BLS-AED Course:

Accidents, sudden serious illnesses occur in every workplace. The course teaches skills necessary in dealing with these situations, thus, providing the needed security to the employer as well as the employee. The course is set up to offer practical and useful information and not long, endless lectures.

Definitions:

• BLS: Basic Life Support
• AED: Automated External Defibrillation

Topics:

1. Definition and significance of BLS
2. Sudden death - causes, prevalence, significance
3. Chain of Survival
4. BLS - change of outlook
5. AED - basic definitions
6. BLS algorithm
7. Foreign body removal
8. AED - detailed guide
9. Trauma care
10. Training in BLS
11. Training in foreign body removal
12. Training in AED

Topics may be changed, if requested, for instance, instruction in AED may be left out especially if no such equipment is available at the workplaces of those present. The courses usually consist of small or midsized groups, with 8 or more persons and 2 instructors. Special dolls are used in the practical lessons. Duration: 5 hours in total including 2˝ hours of practical training (see 10-12 above).

Children's Emergencies

We initiated the First Aid course for parents in order to provide them with useful and practical information and skills they can use in the event that their children become ill or suffer an accident. Experienced physicians and nurses will discuss effective techniques for lowering high fever, how to recognize and what to do in cases of fever seizures, discuss burns and what to do when food was swallowed wrong and crib death. Resuscitation is especially emphasized, taught and practiced on special child-sized dolls. Since 2004, more than one hundred parents have graduated from this course.

Course length: 5 hours of which 1˝ hours is set aside for actual practice.

Main topics covered: fever, fever relief, fever seizures, diarrhea, vomiting, poisoning, accidents, crib death, swallowing wrong and resuscitation.

Parents taking part will receive a CD containing the material covered.