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Course: CPR—Adult, Child and
Infant
Purpose
Train lay responders to overcome any reluctance to act in emergency situations and to recognize and
care for life-threatening respiratory or cardiac emergencies in adults, children and infants.
Prerequisites
None
Learning Objectives
• Describe how to recognize and respond to an emergency.
• Describe the purpose of the Good Samaritan Laws.
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Identify the difference between consent and implied consent.
• Describe the three emergency action steps.
• Explain when and how to call 9-1-1 or the local emergency number.
• Explain when and how to move a person from a dangerous scene.
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Identify how to minimize the risk of disease transmission when giving care.
• Demonstrate how to minimize the risk of disease transmission when giving care.
• Demonstrate how to check an unconscious person for life-threatening and nonlife-threatening
conditions.
• Explain how to check a conscious person for life-threatening and nonlife-threatening conditions.
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Identify the signals of shock and describe how to minimize its effects.
• Describe how to prioritize care for injuries and sudden illnesses.
• Recognize the signals of a breathing emergency.
• Demonstrate how to care for a person who is choking.
• Demonstrate how to recognize and care for a person who is not breathing.
• Recognize the signals of a cardiac emergency.
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Identify the links in the Cardiac Chain of Survival.
• Describe how to care for a heart attack.
• Demonstrate how to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
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Identify prevention strategies to decrease the risk of breathing emergencies.
• Explain when and how to move a child from a dangerous scene.
• Demonstrate how to care for a child who is choking.
• Demonstrate how to recognize and care for a child who is not breathing.
• Demonstrate how to give CPR to a child.
• Demonstrate how to care for an infant who is choking.
• Demonstrate how to recognize and care for an infant who is not breathing.
• Demonstrate how to give CPR to an