Front Line Training

Advance First Aid Renewal

Advanced First Aid Renewal

AFA is a professional level of emergency response including Firefighters, Law-Enforcement Officers, Oil and Gas Safety personnel and Emergency Medical Services personnel.

Events
  • No events

Advanced First Aid Renewal

AFA is a professional level of emergency response including Firefighters, Law-Enforcement Officers, Oil and Gas Safety personnel and Emergency Medical Services personnel.

Advanced First Aid Program:

The Advanced First Aid Program offered by the frontline training.

Agency Approvals:

  • – Edmonton Fire Recruitment
  • – OFA Level 3 British Columbia
  • – Work Place Health and Safety

Audience:

For those primarily designated with the responsibility as an Advanced Workplace First Aid Attendant. In some jurisdictions, this advanced first aid course is approved for pre-hospital medical first responders.

Duration:

40 Hours (based on jurisdiction)

Prerequisites:

Participant must be certified in Standard First Aid with CPR level C

Completion:

  • – Successfully demonstrate the required skills
  • – Minimum 75% mark for written, closed book, knowledge evaluation
  • – Successfully complete minimum of one practical scenario
  • – Attend and participate in 100% of the course Certification
  • – 3-year certification in Advanced First Aid (digital certificate issued upon successful completion)
  • – Recertification
  • – 40 hours

Course Content:

  • – The Professional Responder
  • – Responding to the call
  • – Infection prevention and control
  • – Anatomy and physiology
  • – Assessment
  • – Airway management and respiratory emergences • Circulatory emergencies
  • – Shock
  • – Hemorrhage and soft tissue trauma
  • – Musculoskeletal injuries
  • – Chest, abdominal and pelvic injuries
  • – Head and spinal injuries
  • – Acute and chronic illnesses
  • – Poisoning
  • – Environmental illnesses
  • – Pregnancy, labour and delivery
  • – Special populations
  • – Crisis intervention
  • – Reaching, lifting and extricating patients
  • – Transportation
  • – Multiple-casualty incidents
  • – Pharmacology
  • – Marine environment
  • – Workplace
Scroll to Top