Emergency Medical Response
Trainer: Mr Mario Delicata - Health & Safety Officer
Target Audience: Members of staff identified by the Health & Safety team
Course duration: 4 hours
Course overview
In this course participants are taught about basic First Aid treatment for the most common injuries or illnesses, such as lacerations, burns, puncture wounds, fractures and the different kind of bandaging required. It provides clear information of what has to be done immediately in case of minor and some major injuries, until professional help arrives. This course provides a basic foundation for pursuing the next step of becoming a First Aider. A certificate of an ‘Appointed Person’ will be issued for those who successfully complete the course.
Course structure
Topics covered in this training course include:
- Maltese First Aid Legislation;
- Accident scene assessment;
- Levels of consciousness;
- Positions: Recovery, Fainting, Epileptic fit;
- Attacks: Panic, Angina, Heart;
- Anaphylactic shock & Allergic reactions;
- Choking and Poisoning;
- Muscular Injuries (Ligaments and tendons);
- Burns & Scalds;
- Bleeding control;
- Bone Injuries;
- Neck and spinal injuries;
- Amputations;
- Resuscitation.
Bleeding Management
Trainer: Melita Safety Training Services
Target Audience: Members of staff identified by the Health & Safety team
Course duration: 7.5 hours
Course structure
Topics covered training course include:
- MARCH algorithm;
- Internal bleeding;
- Junctional bleeding;
- Bleeding form extremities;
- Major trauma such as eviscerations;
- Chest injuries to include sucking chest wound, flail chest, tension pneumothorax;
- Commercial tourniquets, pressure bandages , hemostatic dressings to control massive bleeding;
- Facial trauma, including maintaining patent airway;
- Use of vented chest seals;
- Improvisation;
- Traumatic injuries to limbs, torso and head;
- Bleeding control kits, wound packing and pressure bandages.
