Basic First Aid

This 2 week course is a basic guide to first aid. You’ll learn how to recognise and manage emergencies, and get a foundation of first aid knowledge and skills to build on. Whether it’s how to help someone who’s choking, or help someone who has passed out, or help someone with a severe cut - this course will give you the basics. Thousands more lives a year could be saved if more of us knew first aid - get started learning today. By the end of the course, you'll be able to... This course is for anyone interested in learning first aid, you don’t need any medical experience. Founded in 1451, the University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world. It is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of leading UK research universities.

• Explain why first aid is a vital skill and know when to apply it
• Describe how to recognise and manage the non-breathing unconscious patient
• Describe how to recognise and manage the breathing unconscious patient
• Describe how to manage an acute bleed
• Summarise how to help someone who is choking
• Discuss how to build on first aid skills