Pediatric First Aid, CPR and AED

Course content:

No matter how careful you are, kids get hurt. We can help you handle the usual bumps and bruises, as well as more serious injuries and sudden illnesses. The National Safety Council's Pediatric First Aid, CPR and AED programs cover the latest techniques for emergency care, plus practical safety tips for preventing injuries.

Our programs also address important issues such as caring for children with medical conditions (asthma, diabetes, HIV), and dealing with signs of abuse and neglect.

Our pediatric programs were the first to focus exclusively on how injuries affect babies and young children. Child care professionals praise them. And they meet the first aid and CPR certification standards of all 50 states.

The Pediatric First Aid, CPR and AED course covers:

Breathing and cardiac emergencies in infants and children
Identifying and caring for commonage-related injuries
Preventing childhood injuries

It's for:

Child care providers, early childhood education professors or students, youth organizations, parents.

Duration:

6-24 hours, depending on state regulations and topics

About our First aid, CPR and AED programs

Quality

- More than 70 national medical, health, and safety organizations have reviewed, contributed to, or endorsed our programs. And we give you the most up-to-date information. We print our Instructor and Student Manuals in small quantities, just so we can revise them to reflect the very latest protocols and techniques.

Content

- We cover all the basics, plus specialized techniques. Our standard first aid and CPR course meets all OSHA requirements. And all our supplemental training materials are easy to use and understand.

Flexibility

- We designed our programs to reach all types of learners. They combine lecture, video, group discussion, and hands-on training. You can concentrate on the formats that are best for you. And we can customize the program for your company's specific emergency care training needs.

If you want to learn First Aid & CPR, you can't do better than the National Safety Council. Our courses offer the most flexibility and the most up-to-date content. We don't only tell you what to do -- we tell you what not to do, and why.

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